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great Nicety, fo as to recommend them to 

 Ufa, and the Prafticc of Gardeners and De- 

 figners, 



Mr. James's Tranflation, indeed, goes be- 

 fore^ and, befidcs, he has had the mod mag- 

 nificent Gardens of all France to view, and 

 he has certainly chofe the very Mar- 

 row and Beauty of all thofe excellent De- 

 Cgns^ fo that, in this Point, I muft expeft to 

 fall very far fhort of him ^ which will be, I 

 hope, excused, when 'tis confider'd, that I 

 have writ this Treatife in a Country that does 

 not yet abound with fuch truly noble Gar- 

 dens as France does, tho' we are by Nature fo 

 much better enabled to do it. But this will, 

 'tis hop'd, tempt fome of our curious Planome- 

 trianSy in Tiire tocome, to finifti whatishere 

 fo imperfedly begun. 



And for the reft, if Providence permits, I 

 hope, on the Spot, in thefe Countries, to col- 

 left what may yet farther advance us in the 

 Knowledge and Improvements of Horticulture, 

 and other rural Amufements. 





Of 



Court-Yards. 



COurt-Yakds areby the L^riwjcaird 

 Jrejz^ quia ibi arefcuntfruges^ fays Var- 

 f^, an ancient Writer of Hulbandry amongft 

 the iJ(^?/j^;u5 and with us, Court-Tar Js --^ Courts 

 from the French^ and Tard^ a Term of our 

 own, and is, in its proper Signification, an 



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