Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon].

  • Thomas Whately
Date:
1777
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Credit: Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ot] _ us to:the fight ofthis divifion. - The moft ob- vious difeuife is to keep the. hither above the’ further bank all the way; fo that the latter may. not be feen at a competent diftance: but this alone: is not always fufficient; for a divifion ap- pears, if an uniformly continued line, however faint, be difcernible; that line, therefore, muft be» broken ; low. but extended. hillocks. may. fometimes' interrupe xit;. or the fhape-on one fide. may be continued, acrofs the funk fence, on the other; as when the ground finks in the field, by beginning the declivity in the garden. Trees too without, connected with thofe within, and feeming part of a clump. or a grove there, will frequently obliterate every trace of an inter- ruption, By fuch, or other means, the line may be, and fhould be hid or difguifed; not for the purpofe of deception (when all is done, we are feldom deceived) but to preferve the continued furface entire. | | If, where no union is intended, a line of fepa- ration is difagreeable, it mutt be difgufting, when it breaks the connection between the feve- ral parts of the fame piece of ground. That con- nection, depends on the junétion. of each part .to thofe about it, and on the relation of every part to the whole. To cornplete the former, fuch fhapes fhould ‘be contiguous as moft readily unite; and the actual divifion between them fhould be . anxioufly
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