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Sept. one Terrace in a Garden, nor does there often The great Art is in chufing fuch a Place Sept. 
_—-—- want the Means of that. It fhould be large | as affords the kind of Views we have defcribed, ~~~ 
like all the other Parts, and it muft have Shade, | and where it does not obftruét the Eye from other 
for otherwife its Height makes it more than any | Parts of the Garden. 
other Part of the Garden expofed to the Sun. 
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Of GROVES: 
even the Middle, ie a well chofen Place, 
The great Art is to give thefe Parts an Ap- 
pearance of Nature, and nothing anfwers this | 
No can be more effential to a Garden 
than this kind of Plantation; but thete 
is nothing in which the common Practice mote 
departs from Truth. Two Purgofes fhould al- | Purpofe like a well chofeh Irregularity. 
: ways be intended in thefe Plantations; an agree- This internal Difpofition underftood; the next 
q able Object from without, and a Retreat from | Point is the Choice of the Trees; confidering 
the Sun within. The firft will depend upon the | the Grove as an Obje& from without. In this 
Choice of the Trees, and the other on their | Senfe it is a great Clump: and it is always the 
Difpofition. eo iy | better for its Bignefs. 
The Grove muft have a Walk for the eafy | Nature affords an endlefs Variety of Greens 
Enjoyment of the Shade; and Cuftom has made | in the Leaves of Trees; and the fame Tree at 
this Serpentine. That Form is indeed the beft; | different Seafons of the Year puts on different 
but as there will be more Groves than one in | Colours. The firft opening is pale, the full Leaf 
a large Garden, it fhould not be invariable. | has a more confirmed green, and the Period of 
Whatever be the Shape, the great Requifite is | Decay is yellow, or in fome {carlet. . . | 
Extent. The Gardener miift know all the Trees fit 
The great Error is planting the Grove, in | for fuch a Plantation, that he may be able to 
general, too clofe, and making the Walk too | chufe the fitteft; and he fhould be fo far a 
narrow: from this there is an unwholefome Air; | Painter, that underftanding what are the Colours, 
and the Trees do not thrive well. | _| he may know alfo how to throw them together, fo 
A third Part of the Trees ufually allowed will | as to fet off one another in their Perfection, and. 
be fully fufficient for this Purpofe: their Branches | afford Variety in the Decay. | | : 
will fpread the farther, the more diftant they. are | . Good Painters in Landfcape call Autumn the 
at the Root; and a very broad Walk will have mott agreeable Seafon, becaufe of this Diverfity 
fufficient Shade. of Colour in the decaying Leaves: it is one 
In this Cafe the Bottom may be always clean of thofe Beauties in Nature we can eafily im- 
and hard there. will be, free Air and fufficient |-prove, . by chufing for this Plantation fuch as 
Shelter: Flowering Shrubs. fhould be -planted | have:.the fineft Tinéts, and. the greateft Diverfity 
to edge the Walk; and in this kind of Con- | of them. : 
ftruétion, they will thrive in a very different The Out-line of the Grove fhould alfo be ~ 
manner, from what is feen when they are choaked | irregular, to imitate Nature, who never made a 
and over-fhadowed univerfally: and it will give | Wood fquare or oval; nor is the chufing of 
a great Air of Nature, if here and there along various Greens, and their Difpofition, limited to 
the Walk, an old Tree thrufts its Trunk be- | this Article, but has its Place in all the Plan- 
yond the formal Line of the Verge; or ftands | tation. 
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