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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    tL 73] bring them nearer together, to affimilate, and to connect them. As fcenes encreafe in extent they become more impatient of controul: they are not only lefs manageable, but ought to be lefs reftrained; they require more variety and contraft. But ftill the fame principles are ap- ‘plicable to the leaft, and to the greateft, tho’ “not with equal feverity: neither. ought to be rent to pieces; and though a {mall neglect, which would diftraét the one, may not difturb . the other, yet a total difregard ofall the prin- ciples of. union is alike productive of confu- fion in both. VI. Tue ffyle alfo of every part mutt be accommodated to the character of the whole; for every piece of ground is diftinguifhed by certain properties: it is either tame or bold; gentle or rude; continued or broken; and if any variety, inconfiftent with thofe properties, be obtruded, it has no other effect than to weaken one idea without raifing another. The infipidity of a flat is not taken away by a few _ {cattered hillocks; a continuation of uneven ground can alone give the idea of inequality. A large, deep, abrupt break, among eafy {wells and falls, feems at the beft but a piece left un- finifhed, and which ought to have been foft- ened: it is not more natural, becaule it is more rude;