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" Love was the Inventor and is still the Maintainer 

 of every noble science. It is chiefly that which has 

 made my flowers and trees to flourish, though planted 

 in a barren desert, and hath brought me to the 

 knowledge I now have in 

 plants and planting. 



" I have seen many gar- 

 dens of the new model in 

 the hands of unskilful per- 

 sons with good walls, walks 

 and grass plots; but in the 

 most essential adornments 

 so deficient, that a green 

 meadow is a more delightful 

 object. And as noble foun- 

 tains, grottoes, statues, etc., are excellent ornaments and 

 marks of magnificence ; so all such dead works in gar- 

 dens ill done are little better than blocks in the way to 

 interrupt the sight. 



"A choice collection of living beauties, rare plants, 

 flowers and fruits, are indeed the wealth and glory and 

 delight of a garden. 



" The new mode of gravel walks and grass plots is fit The banish- 



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only for such houses or palaces as are situated in cities flowers, 

 and great towns, although they are now become prece- 

 dents for many stately Country residencies, where they 

 have banished out of their gardens flowers, the miracles 



