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New Principles of Gardening. 
without Regard to any Thing more: And oftentimes to a Cox- 
comb, who takes upon himfelf to be an excellent Draughtfman, 
as well as an incomparable Gardener ; of which there has been, 
and are ftill, too many in Exg/and, which is witnefs’d by every 
unfortunate Garden wherein they come. Now as the Beauty 
of Gardens in general depends upon an elegant Difpofition of 
all their Parts, which cannot be determined without a perfeét 
Knowledge of its feveral Afcendings, Defcendings, Views, &c. 
how is it poflible that any Perfon can make a good Defign for 
any Garden, whofe Situation they never faw? 
To draw a beautiful regular Draught, is not to the Purpofe; 
for altho’ it makes a handfome Figure on the Paper, yet it has 
a quite different Effe&t when executed on the Ground: Nor is 
there any Thing more ridiculous, and forbidding, than a Gar- 
den which is regular ; which, inftead of entertaining the Eye with 
frefh Objects, after you have feen a quarter Part, you only fee 
the very fame Part repeated again, without any Variety. 
And what ftill greatly adds to this wretched Method, is, that 
to execute thefe ftitt regular Defigns, they deftroy many a noble 
Oak, and in its Place plant, perhaps, a clumfey-bred Yew, Holley, 
Sc. which, with me, is a Crime of fo high a Nature, as not 
to be pardon’d. 
There is nothing adds fo much to the Pleafure of a Garden, 
as thofe great Beauties of Nature, His and Valleys, which, by 
our regular Coxcombs, have ever been deftroyed, and at a very 
great Expence alfo in Levelling. 
For, to their great Misfortune, they always deviate from Na- 
ture, inftead. of imitating it. 
There are many other Abfurdities I could mention, which 
thole wretched Creatures have, and are daily guilty of : But as 
the preceding are\fufficient to arm worthy Gentlemen againi{t 
fuch Mortals, I, fhall. at prefent forbear, and inftead thereof, 
proceed to General. Dire&tions for laying out Gardens in a more 
grand and delightful Manner than has been done before. But 
firft obferve, } 
That the feveral Parts of a beautifulRural Garden, are Walks, 
Slopes, Borders, Open Plains, Plain ‘Parterres, Avenues, 
Groves, Wilderneffes, Labyrinths, Fruit-Gardens, Flower-Gar-. 
dens, Vineyards, Hop-Gardeus, Nur Series, Coppiced Quarters, 
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