The INTRODUCTION 
There is nothing more agreeable in a Garden than good 
Shade, and without it @ Garden is noi hing. 
That fine Terrace Walk at His Majesty's Royal Palace of 
Hampton Court, leading from the Parterre to the Bowling- 
Green next the Thames, being naked of Shade, is thereby 
ufelefs, when the Sunfhines; as is alfo that of His Royat Ma- 
yestys at Richmond next the River. There are divers other 
fine Walks in England that want this natural Embellifhment 
of Trees that caufe Fins Suave, fuch as Puatanus, Enghfb 
Ev, Horsse-Cuessnut; Lime, ¢yc. In whofe ftead, to my 
great Surprize, are planted regular Yews and Holly only as in 
Parterres, Gc. 
The very great Exa€tnefs that was obferved in the laying 
out thefe regular Gardens, were often the Lofs of many fine 
Views, as well as furdy Oaxs, whofe Herculean A/pects, one 
would have thought, fhould have forbid thofe 6a/e and zgnorant 
Praétices.. What a Shame it is, to deftroy a noble Oak of 
two or three Hundred Years Growth, that always produces a 
pleafant Shade, and graceful Afpc& for the fake of making a 
trifling Grafs-Plot or Flower Knot regular. | 
Their Parterres of Embroidery, that confifted of Grafs, 
Sand, Shells, Brickduff, &c. crowded with E-ver-Greens, were 
the firftt Caufe of thefe ftiff Regularities ; which indeed, when 
ufed, fhould be uniform; becaufe the Eye being ftruck with all 
their Parts at the {ame Time, each oppofite part fhould: be equal : 
But afterwards, when we depart from this firft regular Scene, 
then all the remaining Parts fhould confitt of regular Irregulari- 
ties: And the plainer Parterres are, the more Grandeur, for 
when they are ftuffd up with fo many fmall Ornaments, they 
break the Rays of Sight, and the whole appears. a Confufion. 
Thofe great Beauties of Nature, Hinus and VALLEYS, were 
always levelled at very great Expences to complete. thein Re- 
gularity, or otherwife I may juitly fay, the total rain of the 
Gardens. And their Bafins, Canals, and otherPieces of Water, 
had always a very mean Latitude to their Length, as wellas 7- 
proper Figures, broke into many Angles. which deftroy the 
Beauty of fine Water. 
Their Groves (whenever they planted any) were always , 
regular , like unto Orchards, which is entirely wrongs for 
when we come to copy, or imitate Nature, ye fhould ae her 
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