xxvi The PREFA C E. 



of my own Profeffion, and only wifli them 

 to examine well, before they begin on this 

 difficult Province. 



I fhall finifh this Subjed with that ferious 

 Advice of Rapins, it being perhaps not in 

 the Hands of all that begin Gardening. 



VillaV and Gardens you will heft command^ 

 If timely you en^2ige a Mafter^s Hand, 

 yVbofe artful Pencil pall on Paper trace 

 The whole T>efigny and figure out the Place, 

 Review the Planyourfelf you may defcry 

 Errors efcaping the De/igner's Eye. 

 With Eafe reliev'd^ while yet to each new Thought 

 Tbejlighteft Touch reforms tV obedient 'Draught* 



Mr. Gardiner. 



It may be thought I have dwelt too long, 

 and been too fevere on this Subjed: 5 but the 

 Cafe is fo very bad, that I hope to be excus'd, 

 if I have 5 the Difeafe feems to be Lethar- 

 gick, and for want of Caution, and fo re- 

 quires the fharper Medicines for its Prevention 

 and Cure. 



And fince I have been juft fpeaking of 

 Draughts, I cann't but throw in a Caution 

 againft the too much depending on them , in- 

 afmuch as they may appear very fine, and yet 

 be no-way fuitable to the Place. And I will 

 be bold to affirm, that regular fine Schemes 

 have fpoiied as many Gardens, as any other 

 Fault, except there be a great deal of Judg- 

 ment and Confideration with it. 



Thus 



