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Chap. VI. 



0/ Woods and Groves m general. 



HIS Chapter contains all that is moft noble 

 and agreeable in a Garden^ namely^ Woods 

 and Groves >• for no Garden without thefe can 

 be accounted handfome, fince they make the 

 greateft Ornament thereof. Woods^ in the 

 Summer-time^ are the greateft Relief againft the violent 

 Heats of the Sun i and the clofe Parts of them afford a 

 Shade to vi'-alk under, even at Mid-day. In large Gardens 

 we always meet with many of them i and there is fcarce 

 any Garden fo little, but has a Grove, or fome clofe Walk 

 in it. 



Sik<:e it may then be taken for granted, that Woods 

 •are the elfential Part of a Garden, 'tis certain, that a Coun- 

 rry-Seat without them is defective in one of its principal 

 Particulars. 



The French call a Grove Bofquet^ from the Ita'lknWord 

 Bofquetto^ a little Wood of fmaU Extent, as much as to fay, 

 a Nofegay, or Bunch of Green. 



Woods and Groves make the Relievo of Gardens, and 

 ferve infinitely to improve the flat Parts, as Parterres and 

 Bowling-greens. Care fiiould be taken- to place them fo, 

 that they may not hinder the Beauty of theProfped ; for it 

 frequently happens, that one is obliged afterwards to grub 

 them up, or to keep them headed very low, out of the Con- 

 cern one has for the Lofs of a pleafant Profped ; as I have 

 already obferved, in fpeaking of the general Difpofition of 

 Gar-dens. 



For what relates to their Form and Defign, they may 

 be varied different ways, keeping it as a general Rule, to 

 pier^ce them with Alleys as much as poffible, not making 



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