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to cut up any flaring Thiftles and other 

 things of that kind, and a Scythe fix'd into 

 a long Handle, are the chief Inftrumcnts in 

 this Rural way of Gard ning. 

 *^'And when I am fpeaking of a Scythe fix'd 

 in a long Handle, I muft advife. That this 

 ftripping up or cutting be done when the 

 Shoots are young and tei^der 5 for it feems 

 to be a Fault both in this and Clipping to let 

 them be old and hard, efpecially it would 

 be in this, where fo much Strength is re- 

 quired to manage this Inftrument. ^ 



I muft then, in this Place, advife my Rea- 

 der, that the Lines I fpeak of, are to be cut 

 up in the Infide, otherwife 'tis no more than 

 what is in many other Parks, where the Gar- 

 den-lines are too foon terminated, as well by 

 that as the immediate Appearance of fome 

 Grill of Iron, Iron-Gate, or other fuch-like 

 Termination, which is very common in the 

 beft Defigns5 fo that if the Garden be an 

 Efpalier Hedge, the fame (hall be continued 

 quite thro' the Woods and Parks, let them 

 go as far as they will, and no Appearance 

 where the Bounds of the Garden is. 



And if they are Standards in the Garden, 

 they fhall likewife continue in the fame man- 

 ner 3 as alfo, if it be a Grafs Walk, Gravel, 

 Water or the like, they are by thefe Defigns to 

 go, as it were ad infinitum without changing the 

 Scene : And this I take to be the effeiuiai part 

 of thefe and all other Defigns of thb kind, 

 in which other Countries out-doe Us 5 and 

 Vol- I. Z it 



