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hunting-, and other fports that are profitable as well as 

 entertaining. In their borders they plant, inftead of 

 flowers, fweet herbs, celery, carrots, potatoes, ftrawberries, 

 fcarlct beans, nafturtiums, endive, cucumbers, melons, pine- 

 apples, and other handfome fruits and vegetables : and all 

 the lefs fightly productions for the kitchen, are carefully 

 hid behind efpaliers of fruit-trees.— Thus > they fay, that 

 every farmer may have a Garden without expence ; and 

 that if all land-holders were men of tafte, the world 

 might be formed into one continued Garden, without 

 difficulty. 



Such is the fubftance of what I have hitherto collected 

 relative to the Gardens of the Chinefe. My endeavour, 

 in the prefent Publication, has been to give the general 

 outline of their ftyle of Gardening, without entering into 

 trifling particulars, and without enumerating many little 

 rules of which their artifts occafionally avail themfelves ; 

 being perfuaded that, to men of genius, fuch minute 

 difcriminations are always unnecefTary, and often pre- 

 judicial, as they burden the memory, and clog the 

 imagination with fuperfluous reftri&ions. 



