8o Of rural and extenfi've Gardening. 



As a Garden is our firft and principal 

 Thought , it fliould not be a very large 

 one 5 efpecially in (b fmall an Eftate as 

 twenty Acres ; if we allow three, or fou^ 

 for Parterre and Fruit Gardens, 'tis fufficient, 

 and thereabouts is this, which is in the 

 thirty fixth Plate, 



It is ea(y to colleft from the Plate , how 

 the whole is dispos'd, and I (hall therefore 

 be as brief as I can in the Defcription of it ; 

 referving more Time and Pains to teach 

 the method of planting, furnifliing , and im- 

 proving it. 



The Houfe, I fuppofe, is either by Nature, 

 or contrived and built upon fbmething of 

 an Eminence, fo as to admit of two or three 

 Falls or Terraces one under another, this I 

 have ehewhere difcours'd largely on, in as 

 much as it gives a beautiful Elevation to a 

 Building, tho' it is low in it felf, and, befides, 

 as has been before obferv'd, difpofes of the 

 Rubbifli and other ufelefs coarfe Materials in 

 a better and nearer manner, than we can any 

 other Way. So that, fofar, the natural Ri- 

 vulet is fiird, only allowing an under Ground 

 Paffage or Drain for it to pais. 



After you are defcended three Terraces^ 

 you have a plain Parterre of about 200 

 Foot long, with a circular Bafin at the far- 

 ther End 5 I fay a plain Parterre, and can't 

 but always advife, that in all rural Garden- 

 ing it fhould be fo ,• but if any Gentleman 



would 



