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growth in the front ; and thofe that are higher, gradually 

 inwards: that all may be expofed to view at the fame 

 time. They appropriate certain plants to low moift 

 fituations; and others to thofe that are dry and lofty; 

 ftrictly attending therein to Nature : for though a willow, 

 fay they, may grow upon a mountain, or an oak in a 

 bog, yet are not thefe by any means natural fituations 

 for either. 



When the patron is rich, they confider nothing but 

 perfection in their plantations : but when he is poor, 

 they have alfo an eye to ceconomy ; introducing fuch 

 plants, trees and buildings, into their defign, as are not 

 only beautiful, but alfo ufeful. Inftead of lawns, they 

 liave meadows and fields, covered with fheep and other 

 cattle; or lands planted with rice and cotton, or fowed with 

 corn, turneps, beans, peafe, hemp, and other things that 

 produce flowers, and variegated pieces of colouring. The 

 groves are compofed of all ufeful kinds of fruit-trees; 

 fisch as apple, pear, cherry, mulberry, plumb, apricot, 

 fig, olive, filbert, and many others, peculiar to China. 



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