Of rural and exten five Gardening. lo 3 



noteafy todifcover or plottit down, and is 

 in truth cut out as Nature has aljow'd it 5 for 

 where-ever there was an open Place, \\s there 

 Nature direfts, either a Lawn^ or a Walk ; 

 by which means the Coppice Wood, is more 

 full of fmalf Branches and Leaves, than it 

 would be, if the Walks .were cut out of a 

 Thicket, and affords a Pleafure greater than I 

 am well able to exprefs; and here is no Regu- 

 larity obferv'd, but in that rifing Lawn com- 

 ing from the Grand Terrace, planted pro^ 

 mifcuoufly on each fide, and that open Lawn 

 or Figure above^ where we fuppofe to be 

 Seats, and Statutes, But there we learn all 

 the common Form, and by no means cut 

 it out into a Star, or any Mathematical Fi- 

 gure, but follow Nature^ and where-ever 

 we find natural Openings and Glades, there, 

 to make our Lawns and Walks, be they ei- 

 ther ftrait, or Serpentine, ftill humouring, 

 and not draining, the Place by Art, A Walk 

 that breaks off from one another at 20 degrees, 

 is as Beautifulas at the Reftangle at 50, and 

 a Serpentine Line that follows no Center, but 

 Nature ; as Convenient as, nay more, than, 

 the moft exaftly Concentrick Figure, that 

 the Line or Compafs can defer ibe. 



From this fliort View of the Method of 

 cutting out, and ordering, and the Beauties 

 that attend our Natural Wood , we might 

 proceed to think of it in refpeS: of its cheap- 

 nefsj both in making and keepings but thi^ 



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