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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    r DESIGN IN GARDENING. 73 “ and of fkirtings of the loofeft texture,” p. 230, 231, 232.] The age of trees is another circumftance to be attended to in this practice. Beeches in particular fhould never be cleared of underwood, till their fize is confiderable ; they only look like the approach to a witch-houfe*, whofe inhabi- tants had encouraged a nurfery of broom- hicks. PLANTATIONS. Fafhion’s didfates have fubjedted the form of planting to frequent variation. Avenues, quincunxes, clumps -j-, fuccefhvely had the pre- * Such was the name of a building, that formerly flood in Stowe Gardens. [ The crookednefs of half-grown beeches I have heard denied. Nor is it fo flrong in new plantations, as in clofe beech-woods: but the latter is the fubjedl of the remark in the text.] [ f When this was written, I did not fuppofe it neceffary, to add an explanation of the word clump. But two fubfe- quent writers have defined it fo very differently from each l. other,