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The vineyard seems to have been a plantation 

 distinct from the garden ; as also the beds of 

 greens mentioned afterwards at the extremity 

 of the enclosure, in the nature and usual place 

 of our kitchen-gardens. 



The two fountains are disposed very remarka- 

 bly. They rose within the enclosure, and were 

 brought by conduits, or ducts, one of them to 

 water all parts of the gardens, and the other 

 underneath the palace into the town for the 

 service of the public. 



How contrary to this simplicity is the modern 

 practice of gardening ! We seem to make it 

 our study to recede from nature, not only in the 

 various tonsure of greens into the most regular 

 and formal shapes, but even in monstrous at- 

 tempts beyond the reach of the art itself. We 

 run into sculpture, and yet are better pleased , 

 to have our trees in the most awkward figures 

 of men and animals than in the most regular 

 of their own. 



Hinc et nexilibus vineas efrondibus hortos^ 

 Implexos lati muros, et mcenia circUm 

 Porrigere, et la fas e ramis surgere turres ; 

 Deflexam et myrtum in puppes, atque <zrea rosta : 

 In buxisque undare /return , atque e rore rudentes. 

 Parte alia frondere suis tentoria castris ; 

 Scutaque spiculaque etjaculantia citria vallos. 



" Here interwoven branches form a wall, 

 And from the living fence green turret? rise ; 



