‘New Principles of Gardening. 
S EGocdsstdd. 
Of the Duifpofition of Gardens in general. 
4 N this very Point depends the whole Beauty or Ruin of 
3 a Garden, and therefore every Gentleman fhould be 
very cautious therein; I muft needs confefs, that I have 
often been furprized to fee that: none of our late and prefent 
Authors did ever attempt to furnifh Gentlemen with better Plans 
and Ideas thereof, than what has hitherto been practifed. 
The End and Defign of a good Garden, is to be both prefi- 
table and delightful; wherein fhould be obferved, that its Parts 
fhould be always prefenting new Objects, which is a continual 
Entertainment to the Eye, and raifes a Pleafure of Imagi- 
nation. 
If the Gentlemen of Exgland had formerly been better ad- 
vifed in the laying out their Gardens, we might by this Time 
been at leaft equal (if not far fuperior) to any Abroad. 
For as we abound in good Soil, fine Grafs, and Gravel, 
which in many Places Abroad is not to be found, and the bett 
of all Sorts of Trees; it therefore appears, that nothing has 
een wanting but a noble Idea of the Difpofition of a Garden. 
I could inftance divers Places in England, where Noblemen and 
Gentlemens Seats are very finely fituated, but wretchedly 
executed, not only in refpe€&t to difproportion’d Walks, Trees 
planted in im proper Soils, no Regard had to fine Views, Sc. 
but with that abominable Mathematical Regularity and Stifl- 
nefs, that nothing that’s bad could equal them. | 
Now thefe unpleafant forbidding Sort of Gardens, owe their 
Deformity to the infipid Tafte or Intereft of fome of our The- 
orical Engineers, who, in their afpiring Garrets, cultivate all 
the feveral Species of Plants, as well as trame Defigns for Si- 
tuations they never faw: Or to fome N urfery-Man, who, for 
his own Intereft, advifes the Gentleman to fuch Forms and 
Trees as will make the greateft Draught out of his N urfery, 
Cec without 
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