SECT. XI. 



OF RURAL GARDENING. 



level, as walking up and down hills can hardly be called 

 pleafure. That they may be extenfive, they fhould 

 fkirt the grounds, and feldom go acrofs them. In 

 fmall pleafure grounds the edges of the walks fhoitH be 

 regularly planted with flowers, and long ones occafion- 

 ally fo, or with the mo ft dwarf flirubs; and neat fhel- 

 tcred compartments of flowers, (every now and then 

 to be met with) have a pietty effeft. If the walks 

 arc extended to diftant plantations of for eft trees, every 

 Opportunity fhould be taken, to introduce fomethin 

 of the herbaceous Jlowery kind, which will prove the 

 more pleafing, as found in unexpected fituations : The. 

 outer walk of pleafure grounds and plantations, fhould 

 every now and then break into open views of the 

 country, and to parts ot the internal fpace, made pleaf- 

 ing, if not ftriking, by forne work ot art, or decoration 

 of nature. 



Water fhould only be introduced where it will nm 

 itfelf clear, or may be eafify kept fo, as alfo in full 

 fight, and fome fall of it fhould be contrived, (if 

 pofliblc,) for the lake of giving it motion and found, 

 becaufe a lively fcene ot this element is alwavs much 

 more pleafant than a dead one. Every faring of water 

 fhould be made the molt of, and though fountains, &c» 

 are out of fafhion, fomething of this kind is agreeable 

 enough. Near fome pieces of -water, as a cool retreat, 

 it is defirable that there fhould be fomething of the 

 fummer-houfe kind, and why not the fi mple ruflic 

 arbour, embowered with the woodbine, the fwcetbriar, 

 the jafmine and the rofe. Pole arbours are tied well 

 together with bark or ozier twigs. 



" Before the defign of a rural and extenfive garden 

 be put in execution, it ought to be confidered, or 

 anticipated, what it will be in twenty or thirty years 

 time 5 for it often happens, that a defign which looks 

 handfome when it is firft planted, and in good propor- 

 tion, becomes fo fmall and ridiculous in procefs of 

 time, that there is a neceffity either to alter it, or 

 G 2 deftroy 



