landfcape-gardening. They muft be conti- 

 nually among landfcapes, (for there are few 

 diftricts, unlefs very much improved, that do 

 not furnifh fomething for the painter,) and 

 with the leaft attention to pictures and to 

 compofition, the principles of landfcape- 

 gardening would infenfibly prefs themfelves 

 upon their minds; and in molt points the 

 practice is far from difficult. Not fo with 

 architecture, though a ftudy highly becom- 

 ing every man of tafte and property, and 

 intimately connected with gardening: mo- 

 dels of architecture are thinly fpread; the 

 occafions of imitating them are rare, and 

 the practical part requires a very different 

 degree of accuracy. There are alfo many 

 arts whofe theory is curious and interefting, 

 but in which the method of acquiring practi- 

 cal knowledge is tedious, or difgu fling. Such 

 is medicine ; a fcience which often illuflrates 

 the art of gardening more happily than one 



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