particular Piece of Ground for the Beds of the fe- 
le&t Kinds. The Shelter they require, and their 
whole Management, is ill fuited to the Difpofition, 
Intent, and Air of fuch a Piece of Ground as we 
here {peak of. , 
our Directions throughout this Work for the 
Culture of Flowers and curious Plants; we have 
direéted them to be planted in diftin€& Beds, and _ 
feek nothing farther ; this is the beft Difpofition. 
The Pleafure Garden we defcribe in this Place is 
of another Kind, Flowers will be a great Ornament 
IMAP VK 
Of WATER. 
a the Neceffity of Water for the Service ; Sound has Charms in the Moments of Contem- 
Of tbe D i/pofition of Flower’. 
HE Flower Garden and the Pleafure Garden, 
though ufually confidered as the fame, are 
properly diftinét: ‘we do not mean by this that | 
Flowers fhould not be planted in Pleafure | 
Gardens; but that there fhould befide this be a _ 
We fhall now be underftood with Regard to | 
plain {trait Border the proper Form for the Flower 
| Ground. No Edge becomes a Flower-piece like 
in a Piece of Ground devoted folely for that Pur- | that of the Grafs Walk, and they never appear fo 
pofe, where Flowers are the only Objeét, and we | 
to it, but they muft not be confidered as the pririz 
cipal Object; nor muft the reft of the Difpofition 
be fubfervient to them. | 
The fineft Kinds that bear the open Ground 
muft be planted here with the fame regard to 
Light and Shade, Harmony of Colours, and Va- 
riety, that we have recommended in the Choice 
of Greens for the Grove: and as the Variety is 
vaftly greater in this Cafe, Fancy has more free 
True Lovers Knots of Box are banithed, with 
clipped Yews, and Holly Pyramids; nor is the 
well as when they follow Meanders, and rife in 
little Clumps and Clufters. This modern Tafte has — 
found, and there is nothing in the Article of Gar- 
dening, which does it fo much Honour. | 
of the Plantation, we have obferved that it | plation. : | 
holds a high Rank in the Confideration of Em- 
bellifhment. We have faid, that if the Piece of 
Ground can be fo chofen as to have a Brook or Ri- 
vulet at the Bottom, or a rifing Spring toward the 
Top, it will be a vaft Recommendation; either of 
_ thefe will be a Source of great Satisfaction ; but in 
the firft Cafe Nature in a manner has done all, 
in the other it is left to Art. | | 
All ftanding Water is a Blemifh rather than a 
Beauty in Gardens, but from the fmalleft Current 
ingenious Art can form Bafons and Falls, clear 
Streams and Cataraéts at’ its Pleafure. The De- 
{cent of the Ground will give the more Oppor- 
tunity for thefe Improvements: running — 
gives a Coolnefs to the Air, and its murmuring 
{ her Works : 
Art has been ufed to difpofe it in the moft 
fantaftick Forms, but a true Tafte will prefer the 
moft fimple running Brook to all the Fountains : | 
that were ever crowded into a Garden. Whar 
Art may be permitted to do with it, is no more ( 
than to imitate what is elfewhere feen in Nature. 
Whenever the Defigner goes beyond this, he lofes 
Sight of the great Rule which is the copying of 4 
and he will fall into affe@ted Pue- ‘ 
rilities. Bn | “ee 
This is the plain, fimple, afd natural Tafte to 
be indulged in defionine Gardens : thus the mof 
pleafing have been formed; and there is no Way 
elfe to command fenfible Applaufe. 
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