@G «GARD ENING. 
 Augutt. into another: that was the Cafe in the firft Im- 
- provement, as it was called, in Gardens; but we 
have row grown wifer; we have thrown down 
our nine Foot Walls, and opened the Profpect by 
ha-ha’s ; the Country is again become a Scene 
from the Garden, if not a Part of ie, 
We fee fome who have. Tafte enough to niix 
the Corn Field, and ‘the wild Hedge ; . the 
flowery Meadow, and natural Thicket, in the 
very Limits of the Garden; and ’tis fo happy | 
that we may reafonably fuppofe | 
in the Effect, 
more will imitate them. 
a Garden, take into his Mind; and chufe a Spot 
accordingly. 
As wild Nature is to be a Part, or at leaft, is 
‘to come in View, let him be fure to fix upon 
a Place where Nature is agreeable. 
_We have not many bad Scenes in this happy 
Country; but let the Defigner not only avoid 
‘thefe, but chufe among the good ones. 
_. The Country round about muft be pleafant 
that it mdy afford agreeable Profpects, and his 
chofen Piece of Ground muft have fome Eleva- 
tion that he may view them. 
- The World does not furnith a Tree nobler 
than the Engi. Elm; this will be feen in every 
Hedge, and its good Growth is a favourable In- 
dication for the Soil. 
The Hawthorn Hedge, and intermingled Crab ; 
the brown Oak, and the elegant’ leaved Ath, 
all join to diverfify the Scene in our moft com- 
mon Fences ; and a Profpect from the moft con- 
fpicuous Part of the intended Ground, over a | 
cultivated Country difpofed in Arable and Pafture 
Land, with thefe Fences, muft always be agree- | 
able. The good Growth of the Trees will alfo 
fhew the general right Quality of the Soil. 
Such fhould be the principal Profpeé&t from 
the Ground: if the Spot have an Afcent, it 
will be eafy to give different Views of it from 
various Openings ; all agreeable ; and if there be 
not the Convenience of opening immediately into 
any of the Fields from the Garden, yet the Ap- 
pearance of them from a Diftance is always eafy ; 
for when the Fence is not feen, the Field becorties 
a Part of the Garden. | 
Next to Beauty in the adjacent Country fhould 
be Variety ; and ‘this the Defcent of the chofen 
Piece of Ground will beft bring into View. | 
There is no Condition of Nature in which her 
Afpect is not pleafing when properly difpofed 
and introduced. The Frefhnefs of cultivated 
Nature is the moft agreeable near Profpect; but 
a barren Defart, a Heath, or Common, may be Auguit. 
an agreeable diftant Determination of a Vi iew; and 
a Hill, a Foreft, or a River, are always Elegan- 
cies. 
So much the Confideration of the adjacent 
Country fhould prevail in the fixing upon a Spot 
of Grounds and the gteat Ufe of a flight Decli- 
vity, or Side of a Hill is, that it will give Op- 
portunities of commanding thefe Profpeds with- 
out that Bleaknefs to which the Tops of high 
Grounds are always fubject. 
Another. Advantage is, that Trees will ftand 
NR Wiis tar hh 2 me oha-isiabouk to" Wake | well in thefe Situations, whereas on the. Tops of 
1 Hills Winds would tear them from the Roots 
when new planted. On thefe Sides of Hills the 
Air alfo is always more temperate and healthful. 
The Air of low Grounds is ufually damp, and 
the Tops of Hills too fharp. 
This Choice of a Side of a Hill is the happy 
Medium, ‘and it is thus one would with to have 
a Garden fituated, that whenever one fteps into 
it, the Air fhall be refrefhing ; arid that, inde- 
pendent of that Beauty which is to arife frorh 
the Difpofition of the Grourid itfelf, and the 
Plantation ; every Thing we fee at more Diftance 
fhall be chearful and ate anes This we obtain 
by chufing a Piece of gently rifting Ground in the 
Midft of an agreeable and fruitful Country. — 
Thus far the Nature of the Ground fupports 
| the Preference, but many, Things more are to be 
confidered; and there muft be great Limitation in 
the Degree of Afcent. ' 
We have hitherto confidered the Views and 
Wholefomenefs of the Air; but a Garden is de- 
figned for walking, and a fteep Afterit is difficult. 
Every Thing is intended for Pleafure, therefore 
it is a firft Point that every Jing muft be eafy. 
_A very gentle Declivity will give all the Advan- 
tages we have named, and more would be only 
troublefome to the Feet, and unpleafing to the 
Eye. 
_ What fhould be preferred to all others is a. 
continual but very fmall Afcent, which a little 
Labour may in different Places throw into an 
abfolute Level ; nor is there indeed any fuch Piece 
of Ground where Nature does not favour this in 
fome Part of the Slope. 
Thefe Parts will favour that Variety we now 
with fo juit Tafte admire in Gardens: natu- 
‘rally there will be Water at the Bottom; and a 
little Art will detain what runs down the Slope in 
various Parts for the Ufe of the feveral Divifions 
of the Garden; where it may be always ready, 
and always unfeen. 
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