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ably to the directions of Meagre's Designs, Hyll's Art of 

 Gardening, published 1596", and Switzer's Gentleman's Re- 

 creations. 



8. Modern British flower-gardens, are of two kinds; 1. Those 

 laid out into beds fringed on the edge with box, pink, or gentian, 

 &c. as at Blenheim, Raith, and most places ; or, 2. Those laid 

 out into patches and clumps on lawn, as at Nuneham, Beau- 

 mont Hall, Eglinton, Colzean Castle, &c. 



9. A Chinese garden, if desirable, may be formed from the 

 hints in Chambers's Dissertation on Oriental Gardening. 



10. A Grecian garden. See Moore's Letters, iElian's Various 

 History, Athenaeus, &c. 



• 11. Roman and Italian gardens. See Cato De Re Rustica, 

 Virgil, Pliny's Epistles, &c. 



12. A Dutch garden. See Haveneer Konst, by Johann Her- 

 man Knoop, published 1753. 



13. French parterres and gardens. See Quintinius, James, 

 &c. 



