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The INTRODUCTION. 
Steps with the greateft Accuracy that can be. And there- 
fore when we plant Groves of Foreft or other Trees, we have 
nothing more to regard, than that the outfide Lines be agree- 
able to the Figure of the Grove, and that no three Trees to- 
gether range in a ftrait Line; excepting now and then by 
Chance, to caufe Variety. | . 
And fince Parterres are moft beautiful when entirely plain, 
I therefore recommend the removal of all Kinds of Evér-Greens 
from thence, and to have no more Gravel Walks about them 
than are neceflary for Ute. Whoever has feen thofe grand and 
beautiful PLots or Parterres of Gra/sinthe-Gardens belong: 
ing to HAM House in Surrey, oppofite to the Honourable JAMEs 
JoHNsToN at Twickenham, will agree with me herein; and 
were thofe eight Plots, or Parterres, laid into rwe only, they 
would be the moft grand of any in England ; more efpecially 
if that Grove of Fore/t Trees, joyning to them on the Laft, 
were taken in and made a part of that Garden. 
The Parterre Garden at his Mayesty’s Royal Palace of 
LTampton Court, towards the Park, would have a very grand 
Afpec?, were thofe trifling Plants of Yew, Holly, ec. and 
their Borders taken away, and made plain with Grafs. So alfo 
would the other Parterre, looking to the River Thames. 
Befides all the aforefaid erroneous Praétices in the laying 
out Gardens, I could mention divers others, almoft without 
end; but as what has been hitherto faid is fully fufficient to 
demonftrate how little the laying out of Gardens has been 
underftood, I fhall therefore conclude on this Point. with 
one other very great Error that’s often committed, and even 
at this time, which may not bé unneceffary for my Readers 
to take Notice of, viz. When the Situation of Gardens 
fuch, that the making of Slopes and Terraces are neceflary, or 
cannot be avoided, they not only leave them naked of Shade 
as aforefaid, but break their Slopes into fo many Angles, that 
their mative Beauty isthereby deftroy’d. Thus if by wafte Earth 
a Mount be raifed ten or twelve Feet high, you fhall have its 
Slope, that fhould be entire from top to bottom, broken in- 
to three, if not four fmall trifling ones, and thofe mixt with 
Archs of Circles, Gc. that ftill adds to their ill Effe@s - So that 
inftead of having one grand Slope only with an eafy Afcentr, 
you have three or four {mall ones, that are poor and trifling. 
