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are therefore deservedly branded with disgrace ; but 

 be who distributes wealth into the hands of industry, 

 working to useful purposes, and that delectable end 

 of making the country about him a garden, does it 

 in wisdom. 



Yet here some caution may be necessary. " Da 

 nothing too much," is a wise maxim. Building, 

 planting, and gardening, upon a large scale, have 

 been sometimes attended with serious consequences, 

 as when a man's fortune has not been equal to the 

 undertaking. 



It were desirable to be able to produce great 

 things in this way ; but prudence must guide. 



Those who would do much in rural and extensive 

 gardening^ should not (however) be forward to trust 

 their own taste altogether, though they may be in- 

 genious. In this business there is no making expe- 

 riment s, but all should be executed, as much as 

 possible, upon certainty. There are professional 

 men, whose peculiar practice and appropriate talents, 

 will enable them to conceive improvements, and the 

 best manner of executing them, which would scarcely 

 be projected by any private person. There is a 

 variety of works and decorations in rural and ex- 

 tensive gardening which if injudiciously introduced 

 might create a wasteful ex pence. This is an error 

 that ought to be avoided, and most probably would 

 be, by those who have been in the habit of studying 

 nature, and the powers of ait, as her submissive 

 handmaid 



Artificial decorations 'are at this time much less 

 made use of than formerly, and the grandeur of past 

 times in the way of gardening would now be thought 

 trilling and mean. Witness sheard trees, statues, 

 vases, water works, figured parterres, &c. in that 

 style of gardening, imitated from the Dutch, which 

 has been long deemed a mere burlesque upon na~ 



