128 Hbe (Sarfcen 



Without these cares and diligences you had 

 better root up any trees that are infected, renew 

 all the mould in your borders or boxes, and 

 plant new sound trees, rather than suffer the 

 disappointments and vexation of your old 

 ones. 



I may perhaps be allowed to know something 

 of this trade, since I have so long allowed my- 

 self to be good for nothing else, which few men 

 will do, or enjoy their gardens, without often 

 looking abroad to see how other matters play, 

 what motions in the state, and what invitations 

 they may hope for into other scenes. 



For my own part, as the country life, and 

 this part of it more particularly, were the incli- 

 nation of my youth itself, so they are the pleas- 

 ure of my age ; and I can truly say that, among 

 many great employments that have fallen to 

 my share, I have never asked or sought for any 

 one of them, but often endeavored to escape 

 from them, into the ease and freedom of a pri- 

 vate scene, where a man may go his own way 

 and his own pace in the common paths or circles 

 of life. 



Inter cuncta leges et per cunctabere dodos 

 Qua ratione queas traducere leniter <zvum, 

 Quid minuat curte \ quid te tibi reddet amtcum, 

 Quid pure tranquillet, honos, an dulce lucellum, 

 iter t etfallentis sernita vit($. 



