xxxiv The PREFACE. 



corred what has been obferv'd to be amifs in' 

 Gard'ning, I have in that Treatife firft fet 

 down the Errors that have occur'd to me ei- 

 ther in Books or Pradice 5 and from the Me-. 

 thods J have propofed to my felf, and from 

 the Praftice of the beft in thefe Matters, I 

 have put in their room fuch things as I thought 

 would be more proper. 



With the fame Care 1 have trac'd the 

 Round-about Ways and Needlefs Expences 

 which I have obferv'd in the Making and 

 Planting of Gardens, in which there is gene-, 

 rally twice as much as is necefTary, and fhall 

 reduce it into fuch a Method, as that any Per- 

 fon, upon common Confideration, may know 

 if he is well or ill ufed. 



The laft, and no lefs momentous piece of 

 Advice, (hall be, to fix fuch Meafures for the 

 Extent of Gardens, as will, I hope, very 

 much reduce the Expence of Keeping as well 

 as Making. And 'tis here to be obferv'd, that 

 for want of fixing at firft on a general Scheme, 

 and drawing all the Pleafures of the Situation 

 into one Table, Gardens have gradually, in* 

 fendbly, and at laft even neceffarily fwell'd 

 to a greater Extent than the Owner at iSrft 

 defigned them, fo great indeed as to fink un- 

 der their own Weight, and to be a Burden 

 too heavy for the greateft Eftates 5 by which 

 means they came often to be negleded, and 

 to be rather a Vexation and a Trouble, than 

 any real Fleafure and Satisfaction to the 

 Ov\'ner : z-\nd this I take to be anotI:ber great 



Hindrance 



