Chap. IV. 



X)fthe Manner of tracing out all Sorts 

 of Dejigns upon the Ground. 



I S not enough to have given all the foregoing 

 Prad:ices for the Inftru&ion of Gardeners 5 for 

 though they are good in themfelves, and very 

 eafy in the Execution, neverthelefs, being but 



Things detached and feparate, it may be ob- 



jeQ:ed5 that there is ftill a farther Difficulty to tack them to- 

 gether^ fo as to make one Piece y I mean, that it would be 

 Matter of frefh trouble and Perplexity, to trace out the ge- 

 neral Difpofition of a Garden. This^ therefor e^ has inclined 

 me to deliver in this Place the Manner of tracing out a ge- 

 neral Plan, where all the feveral Parts that compofe a fine 

 Garden arefuppofed to occur ; and by this I hope to give 

 the laft Perfection to this Work, and make any one capable 

 to trace and execute upon the Ground, the moft difficult 

 Defigns that are. 



I SUPPOSE, in the firft place, that this Perfon has'confi- 

 der'd and underftood all the fliort Pra^ices in the firft 

 Chapter of this fecond Part^ aiid that lie has tried and drawn 

 them out one after another upon the Ground, I come now 

 to Ihew him the Way to make a general Application of all 

 thefe diftirua Parts, and to put them in Pradice in the gene- 

 ral Difpofition of a Garden, as may be feen in the follow- 

 ing Plate. 



The Ground being drefs'd, and every way prepared for 

 tracing, as has been taught in the firft Chapters of this fe-' 

 cond Part, and the Defign and Difpofition of the Garden 

 aifo refolv?d on, I fliall fuppofe the Building and Walls 



that 



