. 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. re thye f.^ xvi The IntrodSion to Ru althere litdeSand Walks, about ^ or SFoot wide 5 how clean and decentlymight the Owner, his Friend and Fa-mily walk, and view the Produce ofNature, the Blefiings of the great Godof Heaven and Earth. It would be Tautology to enforceany farther the Love of this Employ ingeneral, or of Ru
. 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. re thye f.^ xvi The IntrodSion to Ru althere litdeSand Walks, about ^ or SFoot wide 5 how clean and decentlymight the Owner, his Friend and Fa-mily walk, and view the Produce ofNature, the Blefiings of the great Godof Heaven and Earth. It would be Tautology to enforceany farther the Love of this Employ ingeneral, or of Rural Gardening in par-ticular ; the very Name and Natureof them are defirable, and the Ownefwill foon tafte thefe Plcafures, thatarife to the Recreation of the Bodyand Mind, therefore twas in their F/7-tas, that theAntientG;e64? and Ro7?ia7ispafsd away the happied Part of theirTimes. How does Horace exult in hisSabine K/Z/i/ and with what wonder-ful Energy did/////)/ there compofe hisOrations, and by the way we may ob-ferve, that their Habitations was fur-rounded, rather with the general Viewand Profpett of their extenfive Villasthan contra(5ted Gardens, Cha p, L \ ^4 Chap. I. SECTION T. Aft ESSAT on Dejign in general^and the necejfary Qualificationsof a good DESIGNER,. I E T lis now examine the ge-neral Idea of a good Defign,and how a Country Seat may-be beft diftributed $ fo thatProfit and Pleararemay be wellmixd together, that thofe Methods that havemade Gardening and Planting burthenfomeand expcnfive, may in^ fome meafure be re-moved, and that the Defigns themfeJves maybe more rural, natural, mure €2if)\ and lefs C expea- / ^ An Efay en Vefign^ and the expcnfive. both in the making, and keepingsand in Reality more intermixt both in ReGpeO: to Profit and Pleafure, than any Defignsor Methods that have been yet taken. For to fpeak the Truth of this matter, moftof thofe that have pretended to give Dcfignsin Gardening, have Cvonfind their Thoughtstoo narrowly into a fort of fin
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