2 INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS 



till Oftober or November, or a fpace may be 

 alfo afligned entirely for a flower garden, laid 

 out in regular borders and beds, three or four 

 feet wide, for fome particular or different 

 principal forts of flowers. 



That in a general plan for a flower and 

 pleafure garden together, it is fomeiimes laid 

 out in compartments of grafs lawns, flower 

 borders, Ihrubbery clumps, gravel walks, &c. 

 commencing often in a capacious open lawn 

 of grafs, proceeding immediately from or 

 near the main habitation; having each fide 

 ornamented with fpacious bor<lers, clumps, 

 2nd other divifions, for flowers, flirubs, and 

 ornamental trees, with a gravel walk extend- 

 ing along either next the lawn in front of the 

 flower borders and fhrubbery clumps, or be- 

 hind, or condmSed in a moderate ferpentinc 

 order, between the flower and flirub compart- 

 ments, thereby difplay a greater diverfity in 

 the excurfion through the walks ; or in other 

 defigns, fometimes a grand or main walk is 

 extended from the dwelling right along the 

 middle of the ground, either in a llraight line, 

 or in gentle {t'rpentine bends, with noble 

 b',-rders forfloweis, andraifed fvvelling clumps 

 for curious ihrubs, on each fule of the walk, 

 and with other fmaller walks branching off at 

 "intervals from the main one, in the fame order, 

 bounded alfo wich flower and flirub compart- 

 ments, with intervening divifions of grafs 

 gound, fllrubbery and gravel ; likewifea walk 

 carried round towards the outer boundaries of 

 the garden, the walk having compartments on 



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