SECT*. XI. Of RUR\YL GARDENING* 



Speed whittling home acrofs the plain : 

 Sees vagrant Luxury, her hand-maid grown,. 

 For half her gracelefs deeds atone, 

 And hails the bounteous work, and ranks it with her owi>* 



Why brand thcfe pleafures with the name 

 Of foft, unfocial toils, of indolence and fhame ? 

 Search but the garden, or the wood, 

 Let yon admir'd carnation own, 

 Not ^7/ was meant for raiment or for food, 



Not all for needful ufe alone; 

 There while the feeds of future bloffoms dwell, 

 - Tis colour'd for the fight, perfum'd to pleafe the finelL 



Why knows the nightingale to fing ? 



Why flows the pine's neclarious juice ? 

 Why (bines with paint the linnet's wing ? 



For fuitenance alone ? for ufe ? 

 For prefer vat ion? Every fphere 

 Shall bid fair Pleafure's rightful claim appear, 

 And fure there feem of human kind, 



Some born to fluin the folemn ft rife ; 

 Some for amufive tafks defign'd, 

 To foothe the certain ills of life; 

 Gxace its lone vales with many a budding rofe, 

 New founts of blifs difclofe, 

 Gall forth refrefhing (hades, and decorate repofe, 



Mr. Shenjlone fucceeded admirably in laying out hi$ 

 grounds, and producing a delightful fcene about the 

 Lea/owes. Several gentlemen have done great things 

 in pidturefque gardening, without the afliltance of pro- 

 fessional artifts ; but they have had a peculiar talent this 

 way, improved by fludy and obfervation. Thus Mr, 

 Walpole makes an eafy affair of it, and fays, " the 

 pofleffor, if he has any tafte, is the beft defigner of his 

 own grounds. " And indeed, as they have come fo 

 frequently under his own eye and contemplation, he 

 mufi, in a great meafure, be competent to the work;, 

 and at leaft, ought not to give up his judgment too im- 

 plicitly to general undertakers of rural gardening. 



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