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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    If we except fome of the flow-growing ever-grcens, mod fhrubs (as Mr. Walpole obferves) lofe their beauty in lefs than twenty years. They cannot confequently be relied on for a lajling efie£1 by identical fize and pofition. But, when they are ufed for forming a mafs, the inconvenience of their fhort duration is eafily obviated. Un- lels prevented by too fedulous art, fhrubbe- ries perpetuate themfelves. Where the old myrtle her good influence fheds, Sprigs of like leaf erecl their filial heads; And when the parent rofe decays and dies. With a refembling face the daughter buds arife. Prior.] WOODS. Contrail will often call forth beauties, which one fhould hardly believe the fitua- tion could afford. One of the propereft places