SECT. XI. 



OF RURAL GARDENING, 



SECTION XI. 



OF RURAL AND EXTENSIVE GARDENING, 



URAL and extenfroe gardening is naturally connected 

 with a tafte for planting forejl trees; and an idea of 

 the picturefque fliould ever accompany the work of 

 planting. Merely for the fake of objecls to gratify 

 the eye, planting is very often pursued, and where- 

 ever trees can be introduced ro improve a view from 

 the houje, or accuftomed walks, there a man, having it 

 in his power, as proprietor of the land, ought certainly 

 to plant. 



If to planting in clumps, coppices, groves, avenues, 

 and ivoods, be added levelling of ground, improving of 

 water courts, and paftures, making lawns, &c. the 

 expence incurred would be honourable, and anfwered 

 by pleafures of the fincereft kind ! There are ways of 

 ipending money, that could be named, which are found 

 mifchievous in the extreme, and are therefore deferv- 

 edly branded with difgrace; but he who diftributes 

 wealth into the hands of induftrs, working to ufeful 

 purpofes, andthat delegable end of making the country 

 about him a garden, does it in wifdcm. 



Yet here fome caution may be neceffary, " Do 

 nothing too much** 1 is a wife maxim. Building, plant- 

 ing, and gardening, upon a large feate, have been fome- 

 times attended with jertous confequences, as when a 

 - man's fortune has not- been equal to the undertaking. 



