. 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. CHAP. VIII. ^i^M.^MiMMiii^Mtii%M^i±±^ SECTION IX. A Defer lotion of a leant ifiilRural Garden. |Efore I quit my agreeable and enter-taining Subjed of Defigns in gene-ral, I cannot omit giving a particu-lar Defcription of a l^iiral Garden^which tho* not equally extenfive, yet perhapsequally beautiful to mofl we have in Eng
. 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. CHAP. VIII. ^i^M.^MiMMiii^Mtii%M^i±±^ SECTION IX. A Defer lotion of a leant ifiilRural Garden. |Efore I quit my agreeable and enter-taining Subjed of Defigns in gene-ral, I cannot omit giving a particu-lar Defcription of a l^iiral Garden^which tho* not equally extenfive, yet perhapsequally beautiful to mofl we have in England^notwithftanding the happy PoiTeffbr bears nohigher Charader than that of a private Gen-tleman. ^ K I have. * Mr. Blathwayti G^rf/en; at Durham ntAY t/peBath in Qlou-cefterftiire. 114 Of rural and extenjive Gardening. I have been a great many Pages in treatingof Situations, which a Man would alwayswillingly chufe,tho it is rarely in his Power :I therefore hope this Defcription will bethe more acceptable, as it contains matter ofFad, and is no way chimerical ^ and whentis confiderd, that Nature has a greater Sharein the Beauties I am proceeding to, than Art ^not but very confiderable Sums have been ex-pended to bring thefe Gardens to that Per-fefliion which I fome Years fince faw themin, when my AflFairs required my Atten-dance on a Perfon of the firfl: Rank at theBath. To defcribe the Situation of the Seat ingeneral is a Ta(k of Difficulty 5 the beft Ac-count I can give of it in a few Words, is,that *tis a beautiful Irregularity, here a Dale,there a Mount, here a winding Valley, therea purling Stream, &c. And indeed theQuantity of Water which abounds here, andplentifully fupplies the Wa
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