The INTRODUCTION 
gular Gardens are incapable of doing. Nor is there any Thing 
more fhocking than a Stiff regular Gardens where after. we have 
feen one quarter thereof, the very fame is repeated in all the 
‘remaining Parts, fo that we are tired, inftead of being further 
entertain’d with fomething new as. cxpeéted. 
Thefe regular Gardens were firkt taken from the Dutch, and in- | 
troduced into Exgland in the Time of the late Mr, London ang 
‘Mr. Wife, who being Hien (opposes to bethe beft Gardeners in 
England (tae Art being in its Infancy, to what it isnow} were— 
mployed by the Nob:lity and Gentry of England to ay oor" 
and plant their Gardens in that regular, Stiff, and ftuft up Man- 
wer in which many yet appear.- : 
And as Gentlemen, in thofe Days, were but flightly acquainted 
with the Pleafure of Gardening, they were the caficr impofed 
upon: Their Gardens were crowded with Evet-Greens and other 
Plants, fo that they had more of the Afpeé& of a Nurfery, than 
a-Garden of Pleafare : But whether this Over’ and above thick 
Planting proceeded from the Fafhion of thofe Times, the Ig- 
norance of the Defigners, or the Advantages that might acerge 
from the greater Sales of their Plants, I am not able to deter- 
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ine. As 
And befides, their Aiff regular Plans were always ftufPd 
with ¢réfing flower Knots, ‘Parterres of Cut-work, E mbroidery, 
Wilderneffes of Ever-Greens, and fometimes of Fore? Trees, 
(tho’ very: rarely, for their Nurferies then abounded moft 
with 2ews, Holes; and other Ever. Greens) whole Walks ever 
had.a wiggard Breadth: So that after afew Years the Growth 
of the Plants. were fuch that they: were hardly paffable, © © 
Their Wilderneffes and Groves (when they planted any) 
were always placed at the moft remote Parts of the Garden: So 
that before we.can enter them, in the Heat of Sdmmer, when 
they are moft ufeful, we are obliged to pafs thro’ the Scorching 
Heat of the Sun. ; 
Indeed, *tis oftentimes neceflary to place Groves and open 
Wilderneffes in fach remote Parts of Gardens, from Whence 
pleafant Profpeéts are taken ; but then we fhould always take 
care to plant proportionable Avenues leading from the Houle to 
them, under whofe Shade we might with Pleafure pafs and 
tcpafs at any time of the Day. 
