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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    Aas f. go.5] te varieties are below our notice in the confiders ation of oreat effects : they are of confequence | ‘only where the plantation is near to the fights where it fkirts:a home fcene, or borders the fide of awalk:.and in a dhrubbery, which in its nature is little, both in ftyle and in extent, they fhould be anxioufly fought for. The nobleft wood is not indeed disfigured by them; and when a wood, having ferved as a great object © to one {pot, becomes in another the edge of a - walk, little circumftances, varying with ceafe- “Jefs.change along the outline, will then be at- tended to; but wherever thefe minute varieties are fitting, the groffeft tafte will feel the pro- priety, and, the moft curfory obfervation will fogeeft the, diftinctions; adetail of all wonld.be endlefs; nor can they.be reduced into claffes. | - To range the fhrubs and {mall trees fothat they may. mutually fet off the beauties, and conceal the blemifhes of cach other; to-aim at noseftects which depend on a nicety for their fuccefs, and - which the foil, the expofure, or the. feafon of the day may deftroy; to attend more to the | groupes than to the individuals; and to confider’ the whole as a plantation, nat asa collection of plants, are the beft. general rules which can. be given concerning them. 3 XIV. Tue different tints of greens may feem at