Of rural and extetjfive Gardening. 5 1 



more or lefs, and the Dcfigncr may accord- 

 ingly alter the Scale at his Pleafure, 



AH that ought to be allow'd to, what 

 may properly be call'd. Gardens, or other 

 Court Yards, Buildings, and Offices of Con- 

 venience, iliould not be above Five or Six 

 Acres in middling Defigns, nor above 20 in 

 the greateft. This Trad of Ground ought 

 to be fenc'd, that Beafts and Cattle do not 

 come to trample the Ground, or break and 

 crop any of the Trees that grow upon it, 

 and, becaufe the Grounds adjoyning to fuch 

 Buildings, are for the m.oft Part Lavi^ns and 

 Plats of Gra(s, and other Materials, that will 

 otherwife very much fuffer by this Inconve- 

 nience ; it will be abfolutely neceflary to 

 confider, hov/ to do this as foon as any 

 thing ; and this wiil opportunely fall in this 

 next Plate, leaving the other exterior Parts 

 of our more grand and excenfive Defign to 

 follow. 



The feveral Particulars of this^ ijjz* 

 Court Yards, Terrace Walks, and Parterres, 

 have already been treated of, and this muft 

 be taken as an Abftrafl: or Summa. Totalis of 

 what has been delivered ,- only the mod fru- 

 gal Methods will be here laid down, vv'hich 

 were in fome meafiire omitted in the fore- 

 going Schemes, where Refpeft was chiefly 

 had to the Proportion and Magnificence of 

 each refpeftively. 



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