'i88 Of the Parterre, 



ral Verdure 5 theExpenceof keeping is flill 

 Jefs than when there are Borders and Edgings 

 mix'd therewith. 



The Length is about 560 Foot, and the 

 Breadth 180, which, indeed, is rather the 

 fhurteft, but is what we were obliged to, thro' 

 Fear of cutting away too much of the Wood 

 that tronts the End of the Svi'eep. 



As for the Wood, or Wildernefs, I have but 

 little to remark, only that Care be taken to 

 avoid an Error too much run into by many 

 Deligners of Gardens, in making the two op- 

 pofire Sides direftly alike. This is, in Truth, 

 the having only half a Garden ^ fince where- 

 ever the Sides are equally the fame, when one 

 has feen and enjoy'd the one half, there is lit- 

 tle Occafion to view the fame over again 5 but 

 this proceeds from the Delufivenefs of a regu- 

 lar Draught on Paper. The large fquare Ba- 

 fin of Water was almoft ready by Nature, it 

 would therefore (ui order to have made both 

 Sides alike) have been the greateft of Follies, 

 to have been at the Expence of filling it up, 

 fince it is likewife in it felf the greateft of na- 

 tural 1 Beauties and Conveniencies. 



*Tis true, I can't agree with fome, that 

 would have, even in the Parterre, irregular 

 and different Sides likewife 3 and I dare ven- 

 ture to lay it down as an Axiom in Garden- 

 ing, that whatever lies opeii to View^ ought to 

 he regular^ while ^ nevertheless^ tvhatever h 

 Within the Ambit of Wood^ the more irregular^ 

 the more entertaining and diverting it is. 



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