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dering them with Perfian lilacks, gelder-rofes, feringas, 

 coronillas or fennas of various forts, flowering rafberries ? 

 yellow jeflamine, Hypericum or St. John's wort, the 

 fpirasa frutex, altheas, rofes, and other flowering fhrubs; 

 intermixed with flowers and with the padus of various 

 fpecies, elder, mountain affi, acacia, double bloflbmed 

 thorn, and many other forts of flowering trees: and 

 wherever the ground is bare, they cover it with white^ 

 blue, purple and variegated periwinkle, the convulvulus 

 minor, dwarf flocks, violets, primrofes, and different kinds 

 of creeping flowers ; and with ftrawberries, tutfen and ivy 3 

 which climbs up and covers the ftems of the trees« 



In their fhrubberies they follow, as much as po/Ilble^, 

 the fame rules; obferving farther, in fome of them to 

 plant all fuch fhrubs as flourifh at one time; and in others, 

 fuch as fucceed each other : of which different methods 

 the firfl is much the moil brilliant; but its duration is 

 fhort ; and the appearance of the fhrubbery is generally 

 fliabby, as foon as the bloom is off : they therefore feldom 

 ufe it, but for fcenes that are to be enjoyed at certain 



periods ; 



