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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    preference: dotting * (as they term it) is the prefent method, and the leaft exception- able of any. But a field for the exercife of genius fhould never be limited by fafhion. The Chinefes are in this refpect (according to Sir William Temple) particularly ex- cellent: fc‘ Their greateft reach of imagi- “ nation is employed in contriving figures, other, that I feel it incumbent on me to give my own defi- nition, which is between both. The word comprehends many regular (or nearly regular) figures of linall plantations, whether fquare (like Lord Shrewtbury’s avenue of clumps in Oxfordfhire) circular, or oval, or approaching to either. The clumps alluded to in the text were chiefly regular, and moftly circular, and at that time imagined by me to have loft their vogue; but I feax*, that they afterwards recovered it. This might be owing to the falfe definition of the word in ‘ Obfervations.' Gardeners might make it a fan&ion for their own contrafted clumps, inftead of that writer’s irregu- lar (and improperly named) clumps.] [ '* By dotting I mean planting at random here and thei*e (as particular fpots feem to want it) a Angle tree, or a fmall group : in Angle trees. Difparted, or in fparing groups diftintt. Eng. Gai\ b. 3, ver. 198.] “ where