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In their plantations, the Chinefe artifts do not, as is 

 the practice of fome European Gardeners, plant indis- 

 criminately every thing that conies in their way; nor do 

 they ignorantly imagine that the whole perfection of 

 plantations confifts in the variety of the trees and {hrubs 

 of which they are compofed : on the contrary, their 

 pra&ice is guided by many rules, founded on reafon 

 and long obfervation, from which they feldom or ever 

 deviate. 



" Many trees, mrubs and flowers," fayeth Li-Tfong, 

 a Chinefe author of great antiquity, " thrive beft in low 

 c moift fttuations; many on hills and mountains: fome 

 c require a rich foil; but others will grow on clay> in 

 i fand, or even upon rocks; and in the water: to 

 c fome a funny expofition is necelTary; but for others, 

 c the made is preferable. There are plants which thrive 

 c beft in expofed fituations; but, in general, fhelter is 

 c requifite. The fkilful Gardener, to whom ftudy and 

 1 experience have taught thefe qualities, carefully attends 

 c to them in his operations; knowing that thereon de- 



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