. 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. uchas thofe that are made of Earth, or Sand, orline Gravel. But-, I had almoft forgot, to tell that Ser-pentine Lines, do not always go thro* enclosedHedge Rows, they having for the moft partonly Standards for Shade, as you go roundin them, and Dwarf, Bulliy, Fil-bertf, &c,betu een^ and the great Cattle are kept from comi
. 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. uchas thofe that are made of Earth, or Sand, orline Gravel. But-, I had almoft forgot, to tell that Ser-pentine Lines, do not always go thro* enclosedHedge Rows, they having for the moft partonly Standards for Shade, as you go roundin them, and Dwarf, Bulliy, Fil-bertf, &c,betu een^ and the great Cattle are kept from coming Of rural and extenfive Gardening, pf coming into the Walk by a Ditch, or Stopand Rail, fuch, thonot io very ftrong andof fo good Timber, as encompaffes Blooms*bury Square, And tho Sheep would be apt to creep un-der the Rails, and fo get into the Vvalks^yet a good Ditch will frighten them ; and ifthey did get in, they are harmlefs enough tobe admitted. This open Way of Planting ought alfo tobe fometimes ufed in long Walks 5 and weought to take all the Opportunities we caato open Glances into the adjacent Corn-fieldsand Enclofures, for the Reafons I have ipoketo in the Paragraph about the middle Walkof this Defign 5 and this is all I (hall fpeak toin I Chap, VI. 5 8 Of rural and extenjive VI. SEC T i O N VII. ^iQk[.e(vatio}is on Vlate tbe ^-jtb. 0T r^r-r:r: :^i:\.:.:.y:: , ::i ^i;- g^(^(5gcSG3g pi E next Plate contains an ^s^H^f!^ tire Level Piece of Ground,§jfi^^i:^ 2tid a Rivulet running round0:S^*4^i-g the fame, which Paver Bounds^SS^PM^^ ill all the interior Parr of the:;;• r ; ; ; Garden, and likewiie the plea*l&nrWbod on the outfide, and at the End by€:beGanal which forms a natural.; i Cl c; The main Body of the Houfe? is but 150Foot wide ; for which Reafon, we fuppofe along Gallery, orLod^ngs at each End joyn-ing to it. , . • . , As for the Gardens and Eftateadjoyningto it, the Draught explains it, fo^bat I needadd little o
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