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BOOK I. 

 PART VI. 



ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Ornamental gardening may be divided into three kinds; 1. 

 Parterre or flower gardening; 2. Botanic gardening; and, 3. 

 Shrubbery gardening, or the culture of flowering shrubs. In a 

 complete treatise these different heads should be discussed se- 

 parately ; here they need only be noticed together, and that in a 

 very cursory manner. The object of this kind of gardening is 

 chiefly ornament, taste, and amusement. To effect this pur- 

 pose, we have materials of different natures to be selected, 

 exhibited, arranged, disposed, or combined together. How 

 custom proceeds in this matter may easily be learned; but 

 what is truly proper can only be discovered by reflection, and 

 recurrence to the principles of good taste; which are as uni- 

 versal in their application, as the sources from which they are 



