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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    Yet one confequential defedf he certainly palliates. To lay, that the fcythe on one fide, and the cattle on the other create “ a “ kindred verdure,” is more poetical than exadf. The cattle always leave fomething, which the fcythe does not leave*, and fuf- ficient to mark the line of reparation to a common eye. This defedt indeed may fometimes be eafily cured by only ufing the fcythe a little way on the outfide. For by this method the extremity of the feythe’s do- minion may be made fo confpicuous, as to preclude any fufpicion of deception there: and mere change of cultivation will not alone fpoil harmony of landfcape. Where the junction is eafy, we Hill admit The ufeful arable and waving corn With foft turf border’d. Shipley. [* Mr. Price, in his Letter, p. 153, has made the fame remark with regard to the difference of mowing and feeding. It is there made indeed for another purpofe: and the idea fuggefted by the letter ftrikes me as an exceeding good one, but hardly reducible to rule.] But