xviii The PPvEFACE. 



ment and Performance, this will appear in 

 the Diredion that will be found in this Trea^ 

 tife, and in the other much morefo. 



By Ingentia Rura (apply *d to Gard'ning) 

 we may underftand that Extcnfive Way of 

 Gardening that I have already hinted at, and 

 fliall more fully handle ^ this the French call 

 La Grand Manier^ and is oppos'd tothofe 

 cfimping, diminutive, and wretched Perfor- 

 mances we every-where meet with, fo bad, 

 and withal fo expenfive, that other Parts of 

 a Gentleman's Care is often, by unavoidable 

 Neceffity, left undone^ the Top of thcfe 

 Defigns being in Clipt Plants, Flowers, and 

 other trifling Decorations (which I fliall fpeak 

 more of by and by) fit only for little Town^ 

 Gardens, and not for the expanfive Tracts of 

 the Country. 



This then confifts rightly in large pro-i 

 lated Gardens and Plantations, adorn'd witfe 

 magnificent Statues and Water-works, full 

 of long extended, fliady Walks and Groves 5 

 neither does it altogether exclude the Ufe of 

 private Keceffes, and fome little retired Ca- 

 binets 5 this feems to be the general Idea of 

 the Plan or Ichnography of a well-contrived 

 Seat 5 but when we confider the Elevation, 

 it requires that every thing appears tall, 

 (lately, and bold, and all of it contrary to 

 that narrow and mean-fpiritednefs with which 

 Defigns generally abound. 

 , It alfo direfts, that all the adjacent Country 

 be laid open to View, and that the Eye 



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