OF RURAL GARDENING. 



SECT. XI. 



ferred to freedom and variety. Thefe mifchiefs, how- 

 ever, were occalioned, not by the ufe, but the perver- 

 fion of art; it excluded, inftead of improving upon 

 nature, and thereby deflroyed the very end it was called 

 in to promote. Architecture requires fymmetry, the 

 objects of nature freedom; and the properties of the 

 one cannot, with juftice, be transferred to the other. 

 But if, by the term art no more is meant than merely 

 dcjign, the difpute is at an end; choice, arrange- 

 ment, competition, improvement, and prefervation, 

 are fo many fymptoms of art, which may occafionally 

 appear in feveral parts of a garden, but ought to be 

 displayed without referve near the houje; nothing 

 there ihould feem neglected* it is a fcene of the moll 

 cultivated nature: it ought to be enriched, it ought 

 to be adorned; and defign may be avowed in the 

 plan, and ex pence in the execution. Even regularity 

 is not excluded: a capital ilruflure may extend its 

 influence beyond its walls; but this power fhould be 

 exercifed only over its immediate appendages. Works 

 of fculpture are not, like buildings, objects familiar in 

 fcenes of cultivated nature; but vales, ftatues, and 

 termini, are ufual appendages to a conftderable edifice : 

 as fuch, they may attend the manfion, and trefpafs a 

 little upon tire garden, provided they are not carried 

 fo far into it as to lofe their connection with the 

 ftructure.'*' 



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