PART 1. 



Which contains the 



THEORY 



OF 



GARDENING, 



G H A p. I. 



S^r^ing as an Advertisement. 



PON examining m oft Authors who have 

 written of Agriculture and Gardening, I 

 found none of them had enlarged upon 

 the Subjed: I determined to treat of. This, 

 at firft, had almoft difcouraged me from 

 an Undertaking, in which I could hope 

 for no Affiftance from others, it being eafy 

 to go wrong where no^body has beaten the Way. As I may, 

 then, without Vanity, fay, this Work has fomething New in it, 

 1 hope, the Reader will more readily excufe the Faults that 

 fliall be found in it: Some more able Hand may poffibly 

 come after, and give the finifliing Stroke to that which I 

 propofe but a Sketch of. 



My Defign being to write of Gardens, which may properly 

 "be called Pleafure-Gardens j that is to fay, thofe that we 

 take care to keep with the greateft Delicacy and Neatnefs, 



