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TO THE COUNTESS OF BUTE. 



Dairy-house, July 26, N.S., 1748. 

 I am really as fond of my garden as a young 

 author of his first play, when it has been well 

 received by the town, and can no more forbear 

 teasing my acquaintance for their approbation : 

 though I gave you a long account of it in my 

 last, I must tell you I have made two little ter- 

 races, raised twelve steps each, at the end of my 

 great walk ; they are just finished, and a great 

 addition to the beauty of my garden. I enclose 

 to you a rough draft of it, drawn (or more prop- 

 erly scrawled) by my own hand, without the 

 assistance of rule or compasses, as you will 

 easily perceive. I have mixed in my espaliers 

 as many rose and jessamine trees as I can cram 

 in ; and in the squares designed for the use of 

 the kitchen, have avoided putting any thing dis- 

 agreeable either to sight or smell, having another 

 garden below for cabbage, onions, garlic, etc. 

 All the walks are garnished with beds of flow- 

 ers, beside the parterres, which are for a more 

 distinguished sort. I have neither brick nor 

 stone walls : all my fence is a high hedge, 

 mingled with trees ; but fruit is so plenty in 

 this country, nobody thinks it worth stealing. 

 Gardening is certainly the next amusement to 

 reading ; and as my sight will now permit me 

 little of that, I am glad to form a taste that can 



