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Objects, after you have seen a quarter Part, you only see the very 

 same part repeated again, without any variety. 



And what still adds to this wretched Method, is, that to execute 

 these still regular Designs, they destroy many a noble Oak, and in 

 its place plant, perhaps, a clumsy-bred Yew, Holley, etc., which, 

 with me, is a Crime of so high a Nature, as not to be pardon'd. 



There is nothing adds so much to the pleasure of a Garden, as 

 these great Beauties of Nature, Hills and Valleys, which, by our 

 regular Coxcombs, have ever been destroyed, and at a very great 

 Expence also in Levelling. 



For, to their great Misfortune, they always deviate from Nature, 

 instead of imitating it. 



There are many other absurdities I could mention, which 

 those wretched Creatures have, and are daily guilty of: But as 

 the preceding are sufficient to arm worthy Gentlemen against 

 such Mortals, I shall at present forbear, and instead thereof, 

 proceed to General Directions for laying out Gardens in a more 

 grand and delightful Manner than has been done before. But 

 first observe, 



That the several Parts of a beautiful Rural Garden, are Walks, 

 Slopes, Borders, Open Plains, Plain Parterres, Avenues, Groves, 

 Wildernesses, Labyrinths, Fruit-Gardens, Flower-Gardens, Vine- 

 yards, Hop-Gardens, Nurseries, Coppiced Quarters, Green Open- 

 ings, like Meadows : Small Inclosures of Corn, Cones of Ever- 

 Greens, of Flowering-Shrubs, of Fruit Trees, of Forest-Trees, and 

 mix'd together : Mounts, Terraces, Winding Valleys, Dales, 

 Purling Streams, Basons, Canals, Fountains, Cascades, Grottos, 

 Rocks, Ruins, Serpentine Meanders, Rude Coppies, Hay-Stacks, 

 Wood-Piles, Rabbit and Hare-Warrens, Cold Baths, Aviaries, 

 Cabinets, Statues, Obelisks, Manazeries, Pheasant and Partridge- 

 Grounds, Orangeries, Melon-Grounds, Kitchen-Gardens, Physick 

 or Herb-Garden, Orchard, Bowling Green, Dials, Precipices, 

 Ampthitheatres, etc. 



GENERAL DIRECTIONS, ETC. 

 I. That the Grand Front of a Building lie open upon an 



