The PREFACE. xxxvii 



and add to the Beauty and Magnificence of 

 the Garden in the View, tho' not in the Ex* 

 pence of Keeping 5 fince I would never advife 

 above twenty Acres of Ground in the inner- 

 jnoft parts of the largefl: Gardens, let the 

 Exterior be what they w^ill, to appear, if 

 poflible^ two or three hundred. The man- 

 ner that 1 have taken in doing this, will, I 

 dare afTure my felf, appear pieafing, if not 

 furprizmgj to moft that have not been fo great 

 Drudges to Thoughts of this kind as 1 have 

 been. 



This Method I have proposed, well ma- 

 nag'd, will, I hope, very much abridge the 

 Expence of Making and Keeping Gardens, and 

 will yet add very much to their Magnificence, 

 when, for the Enlargement of their View, all 

 the neighbouring Fieids, Paddocks, ^c. Ihall 

 make an additional Beauty to the Garden, and 

 by an eafy, unafFeded manner of Fencing, 

 fhall appear 10 be a part of it, and look as if 

 the adjacent Country were all a Garden. 



It may probably be fuppofed, by this Pre- 

 face, that I am fetting up new Schemes in 

 Gardening, which may, 'till the Prints come 

 out, caufe divers Reflexions, as the Readers 

 are difpos'd to think^ but, on the contrary, I 

 can affirm, that 'tis much the fame as has 

 been us'd already in fome parts of this King- 

 dom, tho' 1 hope to make confiderable ln> 

 provements^ and for Antiquity, 'tis above 

 2500 Years, fince it appears to be of the fame 

 kind as the Gardens of Epicurus in the Su- 



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