Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon].
- Thomas Whately
- Date:
- 1777
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fe 183. ] all the elegant decorations wick may be lavithed on a garden. — OF ay BAR VE OF LVI. A park and a garden are more nearly allied, and can therefore be accommodated to each other, without any difparagement to either, A farm lofes fome of its characteriftic proper- ties by the connexion, and the advantage is on the part of the garden; but a park thus bor- dered, retains all its own excellencies; they are only enriched, not counteracted, by the inter- place that can be imagined, confifts of a garden opening into a park, with a fhort walk through the latter to a farm, and ways along its olades to ridings in the country; but to the farm and the ridings the park is no more than a pafflage ;_ and its woods and its buildings are but circum- ftances in their views; its fcenes can be com-~ municated only to the garden. The affinity of the two fubjects is fo clofey - that it would be difficult to draw the exact line of feparation between them: gardens have ately encroached very much both in extent and’ in ftyle on the charaéter of a park; but ftill! there are {cenes.in the one, which are out.of the! : reach](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30505963_0196.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
