PREFACE. 



A MO N GST the decorative arts, there is none of 

 which the influence is fo extenfive as that of Gardening. 

 The productions of other arts have their feparate claffes 

 of admirers, who alone relifh or fet any great value upon 

 them ; to the reft of the world they are indifferent, fome- 

 times difgufting. A building affords no pleafure to the 

 generality of men, but what refults from the grandeur of 

 the object, or the value of its materials : nor doth a 

 picture affect them, but by its refemblance to life. A 

 thoufand other beauties, of a higher kind, are loft upon 

 them; for in Architecture, in Painting, and indeed in 

 moft other arts, men muft learn before they can admire: 

 their pleafure keeps pace with their judgment ; and it 

 is only by knowing much, that they can be highly 

 delighted. 



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