An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason.

  • George Mason
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nec deni'um foliis buxum, fragilefq; myricie, Nec tenues cytifi, cultaque* pinus abeft. De arte amandi, Lib. i. ver. 687. Nigh where impurpled hills Hymettus lhews, Lies a foft verdant plot of turfy ground; There from pure fource an hallow’d foun- tain flows, With grove (not lofty) on its borders crown’d : Arbute protedfs the grafs; to fcent the gale, Bays, rofemary, and deep-green myrtles join; Box thick of leaves hands group’d with tam’rifks frail, And with thin cytifus the fruitful pine. [ * A fort of pine-tree, tl>e nuts of which were then in requeft, as appears by another line of the fame poem, Quafque tulit folio pinus acuta nuces. Lib. 2. ver. 424. They are hill eaten by the Italians.] Juvenal