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old gardeners of the Dutch fchool totally 

 prevented its operation, and imitated ar- 

 chitecture; and thence the {till greater 

 formality and ftiffhefs of vegetable walls, 

 and of all that is called topiary work. It 

 has been faid in defence of Mr. Brown, 

 that allowing the clump to be bad, yet ftill 

 it is better than an obelifk or pyramid of 

 lime, or yew: this defence would be good, 

 had fuch pyramids and obelifks, and all 

 the ornaments of a Dutch garden, been 

 ftuck upon the fides and fummits of hills, 

 and all the moft confpicuous points of a 

 whole diftri6t; the clump would then have 

 taken the place of more glaring pieces of 

 formality, and therefore would compara- 

 tively have been an improvement : but as 

 the cafe Hands, while Mr. Brown was re- 

 moving old pieces of formality, he was 

 eftablifhing new ones of a more extenfive 

 and mifchievous confequence. Befides, 

 thofe old formalities were acknowledged 

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