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Piece; as, if two Groves are upon the Side of a Par- 

 terre, though their outward Form and Dimensions are 

 equal, you should not, for that reason, repeat the same 

 Design in both, but make them different within. For 

 it would be very disagreeable to find the same thing on 

 both sides ; and when a man has seen one to have 

 nothing to invite his Curiosity to see the other ; which 

 makes a Garden so repeated justly reckoned as no more 

 than half a Design. This Fault was formerly very 

 common ; but it is not so of late, every one being now 

 convinced that the greatest Beauty of Gardens is Vari- 

 ety. The several Parts of each Piece should also be 

 diversified as, if a Basin be circular, the Walk that sur- 

 rounds it should be octangular, and so of Bowling- 

 greens and Grass-plots that are in the midst of Groves. 



" The same Works should never be repeated on both variety. 

 sides, but in the open Places, where the Eye by com- 

 paring them together, may judge of their conformity, as 

 in Parterres, Bowling-greens, Groves opened in Com- 

 partiments and Quincunces. But in Groves formed of 

 Hedges and tall Trees, the Designs and Out-parts 

 should be always varied ; which though different, ought, 

 however, to have such Relation and Agreement with 

 each other in their Lines and Ranges as to make the 

 Openings, Glades, and Vistas regular and agreeable. 



" In the Business of Designs, you should studiously scale and 

 avoid the Manner that is mean and pitiful and always F 



