New Principles of Gardening. 
- Or, if an extenfive Canal terminate. at one End in an ele- 
gant Piece of Architeéture, with a Grove on each Side thereof, 
-. and the other End in a Wood, Grove, Sc. ’twill havea noble 
© and grand Afpect. 
XXY. Groves of Standard Ever-Greens, as Yew, Holly, 
Box, and Bay-Trees, are very pleafant, efpecially when a 
delightful Fountain is plac’d in their Center. 
XXVI. All Grafs-Walks fhould be laid with the fame Cur- 
vature as Gravel-Walks, and particularly in wet and cold 
Lands; for, by their being made flat or level from Side to Side, 
they foon fettle into Holes in the Middle, by often walking on, 
and therein retain Wet, c. which a circular furfaced Walk 
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refifts. ‘The Proportion for the Heights of the Crown, or mid- _ 
dle Part-of Gr. "is as five is to one, 
that is, if the Walk be five Foot in Breadth, the Height of 
the Middle, above the Level of the Sides, muft be one Inch; 
if ten Foot, two Inches; fifteen Foot, three Inches, Sc. 
XXVII. The Proportion that the Bafe of a Slope ought to 
have to-its Perpendicular, is as three to one, that ts, if the 
perpendicular Height be ten Feet, its Bafe muft be thirty Feet ; 
and*the dike:ofcall. others. © : 
XXVUE Diftant Hills in Parks, Sc. are beautiful Objects, 
when planted with little Woods; as alfo are Valleys, when 
intermix’d with Water, and large Plains; and a rude Coppice 
in the Middle of a fine Meadow, is a delightful Object. 
XXIX. Lictle Walks by purling Streams in Meadows, and 
through Corn-Fields, Thickets, ©c. are delightful Entertain- 
ments. 
- XXX. Open: Lawns fhould be always in Proportion to thie 
Grandeur of the Building; and the Breadth of Avenues to the 
Fronts of Edifices, and their own Length alfo. a 
+ The entire Breadth of every Avenue fhould be divided into 
five equal Parts: Of which, the Middle, or grand Walk, mutt 
be three Fifths ; and the Side, or Counter-Walks om each Side 
‘one Fifth each. But let the Length of Avenues fall as tt will, you 
muft always obferve, that the grand Walk be never natrower 
than the Front of the Building. 
‘The moft beautiful and grand Figures for fine large open 
Lawns, are the Triangle Semicircle, Geometrical Square, Circle 
Or Elipfis, as the Figures A, B, C, D, E. 
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