2i8 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Hedges and Groves, to hide those ill-favoured Objects ; 

 for by this means you lose nothing, nor have anything 

 to regret in Time to come. . . . 



" Groves make the chief Beauty of a Garden, and are 

 a great Ornament to all the other Parts ; so that one 

 can never plant too many of them, provided the places 

 designed them take not up those of the Kitchen and Fruit- 

 Gardens, which are Things very useful and necessary for 

 a great House, and which should be constantly placed 

 near the Bass-Courts, that the Slovenliness, which is un- 

 avoidable in these Places, may lie all together, and be 

 separated by a Wall from the other Parts of the Garden. 



Designs of " To accompany Parterres we make Choice of those 

 Designs of Wood-work that are most delicate, as Groves 

 opened in Compartiments, Quincunces, Verdant-halls, 

 with Bowling-greens, Arbour-work, and Fountains in the 

 middle. These small Groves are so much the more 

 agreeable near a House, in that you presently find shade, 

 without going far to seek it; besides, they communicate 

 a coolness to the Apartments, which is very much 

 courted in hot Weather. 



Groves of " It would be of use to plant some small Groves of 

 Evergreens, that you might have the Pleasure of seeing 

 a Wood always verdant in the very coldest Seasons. 

 They would look very well when seen from the Build- 

 ing; and I earnestly recommend the planting of some 

 Squares of them in a handsome Garden, to make a 



