New Principles of Gardening. 
as if Nature had been the Planter or Director thereof, and by 
this Means you will have the moft beautiful Hedges that Art 
can produce. Of-this kind of Holly-Hedge are many now grow- 
ing in the delightful Gardens of Sir Matthew Decas, at Richmond 
in Surry. 
I cannot well conclude this Seétion, without taking Notice of 
thofe wretched Figures many Nurfery-Menand Gardeners breed 
up their Hollies and other Ever-Greens in, asthe Forms of Men 
on Horféback, ‘as. againit Hyde-Park Gate by Kenfington ; when 
they know no more of the Anatomy or Proportion of thofe Fi- 
gures, than they doof the beautiful Proportions of Architecture, 
which they ignorantly attempt to execute, when they breed up 
Yews, Hollies, &c. in the Forms of Balluftrades, Pedeitals, 6c. 
with the moft deform’d Body plac’d thereon, by them call’da 
round or fquare Column, which hath neither Bafe, Shatt, or Ca- 
pital, or indeed any one Thing in them as is beautiful or plea- 
fing. And feeing that our Britifb Nation does at this Time con- 
fift of the moft noblegrand Planters and Encouragers of Gardening 
of any in Europe, ’tis to be hoped, that, for the future, better Rules 
“will be obferved therein, that is, fuch as are confiftent with 
Reafon, Art, and Nature; and that fuch Plants as have received 
fuch former Injuries, may be reftored to their proper and natural 
Shapes as foon as Timecan operate the fame. ‘To mention the 
feveral Gardens wherein thefe Abufes have been executed, 
would be endlefs; and therefore I fhall only add, that moft of the 
Ever-Greens now growing in the Parterres of his Majefty’s Roy- 
~al Gardens at Kenfington and Hampton-Court, are of thofe dif- 
proportion’d Forms, vzz. Columns placed on Pedeftals, without 
aay Sort of Order, wherein the Beauty of a Column confifts, 
x 
To conclude: When any Part of an entire Order of Columns 
in Archite@ture, as a Pedeftal, Column, or Entablature is juftly 
executed, nothing is of fo grand and beautiful an Afpett. And 
on the contrary, when perforin’d by an unskilful Hand, nothing 
_ appears fo difagreeable. Hence it is that the Beauty and very 
Life of Archite€ture depends on good Proportions: 
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