of Woods and Groves^ 8zc. 22 1 



done what is required of me, choofe which 

 you will. Their Way is fitted for very 

 Jarge Spots of Ground, but ours for fmall ones 3 

 but there is one Thing particularly attends 

 ours, which is the Narrownefs of the Walks, . 

 by which Means the Hedges mufl: be always 

 kept clipp d ^ and which, in theirs, and accord- 

 ing to our Method of Rural Gardening, need 

 .not. But 1 pafs over this, and come to fome 

 other Centers, Figures, and Ornaments, in 

 our Wood- Work 5 and the firft is deduc'd 

 from Architefture. 



Amongft the feveral Arts and Sciences from 

 which the Theory and Praftice of Gardening 

 receives its Beauty, this of Architecture is 

 the greateft, whether we confider it in Refped 

 of the Rules and Terms we borrow from 

 thence, in the laying out and diftributing 'em, 

 or the Idea's we receive from thence in Point 

 ofDefign. 



We have, in fome Places of this Kingdom, 

 already fome faint Pourtraitures and Begin- 

 nings, of defigning and laying down fome 

 little Spots of Gardening, in the Man- 

 ner that the Ichnography or Plan of a Build- 

 ing is^ and by the Means of Eugh and other 

 tonfile Greens, to imitate the Elevation there- 

 of, in Columns, Pilafters, Niches, &c. 

 And this I remember to have feen fomething 

 of at Wincbendon^ againft a Wall there,where 

 the Greens are cut into Pilafters, &c. 



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