COMPLEAT. BODY 
Of CURIOUS and USEFUL 
GARDENI 
Ne. I. For the latter End of Avousts : 
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INTRODUCTION. 
Ce the preted Method of the W ork. 
ee of the general Di ifribucion f 
a Garden. 
e PE fall treat oF Girtens: froin theie 
| Origin, Defign, and firft Conftruc= 
‘tion, to the raifing them to iPer- 
. fection, and keeping them in that 
Condo 5 and we fhall confider, in our Courle, 
their Produéts; whether a Ute; Curiofity, or 
Beauty: 2 iss 
» Thefe we fhall deferibe'’ in thei feveral Seoleies: 
fuiting our Publications to the Time of their Ap- | 
pearance ; referving to thofe Parts of the Year in 
which there are feweft of thefe Objects to delight 
the Eye, thofe Things which are the Employment 
of the Imagination. In the Winter Months wé 
fhall deliver Rules for planning and laying out the 
Ground ; for theConftruction ofthewhole, and for 
the Diftribution of its particular Parts. In the pre- 
fent Numbers our Purpofe will be to inform the’ 
Poffeflor of a Garden, whether of larger or lefs | 
Extent, how he:may beft enjoy the sep ais and 
prepare for the fucceeding Spring. 
- We fhall place ourfelves at the Period: hilrieht 
is at prefent before us; that the Reader’s Eye. 
may. occafionally recur from the Garden‘ to the: 
‘Book, and again from that to the Garden con-" 
firming and illuftrating one by the other. 
Ais’ we thus adapt. our Work to “a Time;, 
we fhall introduce the Reader: at once -into his: 
Ground, as it appears at this Seafon; glowing 
with the laft Flowers and Fruits of Summer, 
and promifing thofe of Autumn, : 
We underitand the Garden of which he js 
poffefied, or of which he now comes into Pof- 
Numb. I, | 
to inform hini how he may improve it: 
-fucceeding Numbers we -fiiall deliver the Me:- 
feftion, to be Mesiel with the corimon Things, Auguit; 
| and to have been hitherto kept in the ufaal Man- ———= 
| ner; as’every Gardener has been taught, fron 
_ Father to Son, mechanically’ to manage it, and as 
every comrhon Writer has copied his Directions 
| from the laft before him. . 
In this Condition he finds it, and we propofe 
In the 
thods of doing this in the Difpofition of its Parts + 
and in the prefent by the’ Introduction of néw 
Plants, : by ‘raifing new Varietiés ‘of ftriped, of | 
painted, and of double Flowers ; and by a more. 
rational and more fuccefsful Care of thofe he 
has already. | 
- Method: and reoulat Diftribution aré the fa- 
miliar Paths to Knowledge; and they are nd 
where: more accor than i in the Confideration Gr 
a Garden.: | go ae | 
Under the general Name of its Produés: afe com- 
prehended Objects of various Kinds, fome of Ufe, 
_and others failed’ folely’ for Pleafure ; fomé, as the 
common’ Flowers, for the Atha tite ent of the 
Eye, others, ‘as’ the exotick ‘Plants, for the Ene 
creafe of Knowledge. ” 
Thefe laft are tHe nobler Part of thé Study, and 
they are what the greatett Perfons who aré pleafed 
to honour the Science with their Notice, mott ob- 
 ferve,: Thefe were the Regard ofa Ricimonp (never 
to be named without Refpe&t and Tears) and 
they are now the Care of an Arcyt: in thefe 
a Perre once delighted, anda Bure atprefent, © 
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