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different soils ; the form of the ground, of 

 which he furnishes two schemes, both cal- 

 culated for a more extensive plot or area than 

 the majority could command ; the structure 

 and material of walls, fences, and other 

 enclosures ; the erection of arbours and 

 summer-houses, garden seats and benches, 

 among which he enumerates some within 

 niches of the wall, protected by a cupola 

 supported on columns a fashion not yet 

 extinct ; the means of irrigation ; fountains 

 and grottoes, statues, obelisks and dials ; and 

 then he proceeds to discuss the main subject 

 the contents of a garden, and how to choose 

 and manage them. There are some excel- 

 lent directions and information on certain 

 heads ; but the book is scarcely what I 

 should designate a comprehensive treatise. 

 It reappeared with some additions in 1683. 



Nor is Worlidge very systematic in his 

 Systema^ for he intermingles in his text plants, 

 herbs, and forest-trees in an admirable con- 

 fusion. The same page describes the ever- 

 green oak, the tree stone-crop, the arbutus, 

 and the rosemary. Yet it is a book which, 



