12 THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



So here did Art arrange her flow'ry groups 200 



Irregular, yet not in patches quaint *, 



But interpos'd between the wand'ring lines 



Of fhaven turf which twitted to the path, 



Gravel or fand, that in as wild a wave 



Stole round the verdant limits of the fcene; 205 



Leading the Eye to many a fculptur'd bufl 



On fhapely pedeftal, of Sage, or Bard, 



Bright heirs of fame, who living lov'd the haunts 



So fragrant, fo fequefter'd. Many an Urn 



There too had place, with votive lay infcrib'd 210 



To Freedom, Friendmip, Solitude, or Love. 



And now each flow'r that bears tranfplanting change,.. 

 Or blooms indigenous, adorn'd the fcene: 



Only 



* There is nothing in pidurefque Gardening which fhould not have its archetype in 

 unadorned Nature. Now, as we never fee any of her plains dotted with diiTevered patches 

 of any fort of vegetables, except, perhaps, fome of her more barren heaths, where even. 

 Furze can grow but fparingly, and which form the moft difagreeable of her fcenes, there- 

 fore the prefent common mode of dotting clumps of flowers, or ihrubs on a grafs-plat, 

 without union, and without other meaning than that of appearing irregular, ought to 

 be avoided. It is the form and eafy flow of the grafly interilices (if I may fo call them) 

 that the defigner ought firfl to have a regard to ; and if thefe be well formed, the fpacea 

 for flowers or fhrubbery will be at the fame time afcertamed. 



