220 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



" If you have any Part of your Ground naturally low 

 and marshy, that you would not be at the Expense of 

 filling up, you may employ it in Bowling-greens, Water- 

 works, and even in Groves, raising the Alleys only to 

 the Level of those that are near, and lead to them. 



" After you have laid out the great Walks and chief 

 Lines and have disposed the Parterres and Works about 

 the Sides and Head of them as is most suitable to the 

 Ground, you may furnish the upper part and the rest of 

 the Garden with several different Designs as tall Groves, 

 Quincunces, Close-Walks, Galleries, and Halls of Ver- 

 dure, Green- Arbours, Labyrinths, Bowling-greens, and 

 Amphitheatres adorned with Fountains, Canals, Fig- 

 ures, etc. All these Works distinguish a Garden very 

 much from what is common, and contribute not a little 

 to make it magnificent. 



Balance. " You should observe, in placing and distributing the 



several Parts of a Garden, always to oppose them one to 

 the other. For example: A Wood to a Parterre or a 

 Bowling-green ; and not to put all the Parterres on one 

 side, and all the Wood on the other ; not to set a Bowl- 

 ing-green against a Basin, which would be one Gap 

 against another: this must be constantly avoided by 

 setting the Full against the Void and Flat Works 

 against the Raised to make a Contrariety. 



Diverse " And this Diversity should be kept not only in the 



ornament^- 



tion. general Design of a Garden, but likewise in each distinct 



