PREFACE. 



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together with the accidental intervention of living or 

 moving objects, vary the appearances fo often, and fo 

 confiderably, that it is almoft impoiTible to be cloyed,, 

 even with the fame profpects. 



Is it not lingular then, that an Art with which a con- 

 fiderable part of our enjoyments is fo univerfally con- 

 nected, mould have no regular profeffors in our quarter 

 of the world? Upon the continent it is a collateral branch 

 of the architect's employment, who, immerfed in the ftudy 

 and avocations of his own profeffion, finds no leifure for 

 other difquifitions ; and, in this ifland, it is abandoned 

 to kitchen gardeners, well fkilled in the culture of fallads, 

 but little acquainted with the principles of Ornamental 

 Gardening. It cannot be expected that men uneducated, 

 and doomed by their condition to wafte the vigor of life 

 in hard labour, mould ever go far in fo refined, fo 

 difficult a purfuit. 



To this unaccountable want of regular matters may, 

 ia a great meafure, be afcribed the fcarcity of perfect 



gardens* 



