4^ The Theory Part I. 



I referve to be fpoken of hereafter. All that I ftall do now. 

 Is only to fay one Word of their Beauty, and the different 

 Forms that may be given them. 



Palisades, by the Agreeablenefs of their Verdure, 

 are of the greateft Service in Gardens, to cover the Walls 

 that inclofe the Ground, to lluit up and flop the Sight in 

 many Places, that the Extent of the Garden be not difco- 

 vered at one View, and to corred and recover the Level- 

 ings and Elbows of Walls. They ferve alfo to inclofe and 

 border the Squares of Wood, to divide them from the o- 

 ther Parts of the Garden, and to prevent their being en- 

 ter'd but by the Walks made for that Purpofe. 



The moft ufual Form of Palifades is a great Length and 

 Height, entirely fmooth and eaven, making as it were a 

 great Wall or green Tapeftry all the Beauty of which con- 

 fifts in being well filled up from the very Bottom, of no 

 great Thicknefs, and handfomely clipped on both Sides, as 

 perpendicularly as poffible. 



B u T in Groves, and fome particular Places, as Clofe- 

 walks, Galleries, and Halls made within the Squares of a 

 Wood, Palifades are often cut into Arches, which have a 

 very handfomeEffed. To give the Arches a juft Propor- 

 tion, their Height fliould be twice their Breadth, and Balls 

 Trumeau, or Vafes may be made on the Head of each * Peer ; the 

 ^ftlTch ^^^^^ formed by Shoots of Horn-beam rifing out of the 

 Arch. Palifade, which fliould be carefully raifed and clipped with 

 Art, to bring them to a proper Shape. This Decoration 

 compofes a kind of Order of Rural Architedure, like that 

 we call the Ru^ick Order of a Grot or Cafcade. The 

 Arches here mentioned fliould not be cut to the Bottom 

 of the Walk, but a Hedge or Palifade Breaft-high. fliould 

 run round about, except in the Lines of the Alleys, 'where 

 there muft be Openings and Palfages of Communication. 



You may likewife, at proper Diftances, make Niches 

 and Sinkings in the Palifades, for the placing of Seats and 

 Figures, as in Groves, and at the Ends of Walks, which 

 indeed is the greateft Advantage of Palifades for their Ver- 

 dure ferving as a Ground to the Figures, Vafes, Foun- 

 tains, it infinitely raifes their Beauty, makes them look 

 more free and detached, and mightily improves them by 

 the Oppofition it produces, 



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