. Ichnographia rustica; or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation. Containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c., and a general system of agriculture; illus. from the author's drawings. eatFamilies make in a finall wooded Eftate, in-a little time: This feems to be the beftchoice a judicious Man can make for his Ha-bitation ; in this he may, if not wanting to;himfelf, may reap all the Felicity this Life canafford, and by a virtuous and careful Life be-come fit for an ever happy Place, where this on-ly can
. Ichnographia rustica; or, The nobleman, gentleman, and gardener's recreation. Containing directions for the general distribution of a country seat into rural and extensive gardens, parks, paddocks, &c., and a general system of agriculture; illus. from the author's drawings. eatFamilies make in a finall wooded Eftate, in-a little time: This feems to be the beftchoice a judicious Man can make for his Ha-bitation ; in this he may, if not wanting to;himfelf, may reap all the Felicity this Life canafford, and by a virtuous and careful Life be-come fit for an ever happy Place, where this on-ly can be exceeded, and of which this is a properType and Emblematical Reprefcntation, CHAP. (44) s^/y/ -y^A: Chap. IV. SECTION IV. INTRODUGTION O F Rural and Extenfive Gardening. HE foregoing Chapters beingpurely preliminary to this thatfollows, we come now to themain Defign of this Book (viz,)the Delineation of Rural and Ex-tenfive Gardens, of which having fpoke con-fiderably in the Introduftion Part, and in fomeof the foregoing Chapters of this Volume,there feems little Occafion to enlarge, muchlefs to repeat what is there faid in its Recom-mendation, the propereft Method (after afhort Recapitulation) toilluftrate ir, is by aReference to thofe few Plates that follow. The.
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