GARDENING. 
feat at erie the — refidence of 'T Thomas Johnes, efq. 
Cardiganfhire 
« Far hence! let Repton, Brown, and Eames 
Zig-zag their walks, and torture ftreams ; 
But let them not a ac prom 
Or violate my Naia 
Nor a ere arogance in jnvade 
My m Hees ryad’s fecret fhade, 
ie wit taltic aes — 
of the place 
§ 
Their brie) labours be d 
Who and natu ere cee 
Much ae “i been produced in the richnefs and var iety 
of our rural pee by the gradual introduction of foreign 
trees, fhrubs, a lants by different a within the 
lat an center Fach s thofe of the fir, , lareh, an 
other atk and likewile ries a number a 
tall, hardy, aa and ade: vegetables, natives 0 
fere sega se na The bea uty and diverfity a 
colouring in ae — in fome initances, are his ghl 
ous and interefting, but confiderable talte and attention 
oas to 
a 
vers 0 y garde 
ia te Pe on fs ditinguilecl ba ce ail y and poor ae 
of their Gicoveries and i improvement than thofe of the orna- 
Tl 
ES 
tidy 
Se 
en a confined by the rules and ablurd re re- 
art, to have moved, = ae a meh narrow 
{pace. 
cultivating a very li s 
and thefe a in very im ur a ie 
Dutch ntinned bo remain for a ae paves of 
time, ot ney to ee se Salo at a Lass be- 
— reduced in ore regular. Ker 
of Miller pire ‘hs ste ae imm edi ae eee ae 
th 
= 
sel 
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re 
fince which time it has continued to advance with more ac- 
celerate ee ae — the = of ager {cientifie 
improvem The x rv of plants, herbs, 8, an 
Ae he cultivated here, ‘have been greatly increafed a better 
nethods of managing them ced. The inery of 
ae art has a formed on more Sul and ccav enient rinci- 
ee and os end) buildings ere€ted with more fe1ertific 
ntions oe ee of Spee A Es 
en as wee as 
able writer, ‘tha 
jent plant or fruit, which 7 lative to the — of ea ee has ss 
utmott tt r any bra 
t 
tion 
The dee “ttablithment a a eels in Lon- 
den is a circumftance that mifes much advantage to the 
art, and ne ceffarily helds ae more al and beneficial 
pu etomeot in its paar t departme 
This may b onfidently looked for, 6 fince the effort 
of fraall hae ah sation have been fo particularly fac 
cefsful in this way. In Lancathire the culture of the goofe- 
berry and onion have been aa haghieds to ftates of perfection 
that are wholly unknown to e fouthern ditriGs of 
1¢ kingdom. it is at aoe but that the fame 
thing may have happened in other fituations from fimiiar 
cautes 
~ 
dca and Culinary Gardening have now indeed bee 
ught to.a ftate of improvement in this ki m that cer- 
an 
€ 
latter, re 
m 
amufing and agreeable by-the application of correé tafte, and 
the judicious management of the different materials that are 
employed, which is effected by aay ee combin- 
differe 
ing, difpofing, and e hibitin ing them i accord- 
ing to the nat f the ary a =i oe ease. 
It may, in fome meafure, be nguifhed into pleafure or 
flower gardening, the culture of “wild plants and flowers, 
2 ad management flov wering plants of the fhrub 
kin 
The materials of the-art may be chiefly confidered to be 
thofe of sell i vale pias ftones, rocks, woods, 
— fhrubs e a few others alfo that 
may be eaten ys made ufe of i in ae fort of gardening, but 
they require much caution in their introdution. are 
moltly of the ftatue, dsaed cn, and other fnilae kinds ; 
buildings, feats, arc 
Where fingle can - difplayed, they are generally in- 
tended to {how fome of the minor beauties, fuch as thofe of 
the flower or fruit kinds, and 
are, 
the moft conf{picuous a ts, and in fick € 
farily excite attention in thefe who may pa 
perhaps, the loweft ae of this ce ean of gardening, 
ie _ have 7 reference to the nature, m growth, and 
the plants, as weil as to the feats a ae fhades of 
Fe ‘lag : fometimes alfo to the whole in combination 
her principle = this Sea of ga se a that of 
mie a beauties in a congregated, or ccllective sage 
which is “accomplifhed ane by means of arrangement, 0 
ene termed greuping. 
Mr in his ufeful treatife on “ Country Re-- 
re rf 
fidences,”’ offers numerous jufi and intereiting remarks upon 
thefe different methods. rrangement, he co onceives, fel ager 
f being effected either “u on the e princi ee ny, of 
culture, of general — or artificial “borderings.” The 
firft of w hich may be as vari the different fyitems which 
by bot sis, whether -eatural or artificial, 
ed in botanic garden oucetions either 
The fecond aoe 6 vefors chiefly | to 
as require a par rticular attention 
aus n parterres, &c 
a a verfal ature, is what will 
pleafing to neral a admirers.’? Its principles ol perfedtly 
thing more than this, one kind 
pofed cf charaéters, or beauties, irregularly blended toge- 
ther ; which is paket ean ted i aN all nature, 
wh ether animal, Blea or mineral.’ however, 
afferted to be a method ae e ne hitherto oe ‘totally ne- 
lected, as molt of nature's laws have been in this branch of 
icience ; while in its place is fubflituted, by cuftom and i ig- 
norance mod aes Solar totally Secon hen ae 
nature or ae tatte,” a of “ the vulgar mode o ming 
diffe 
