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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    i 37] and its boundary is Often inadequate to its oreat- nefs. ‘To continue it, therefore, till it winds out of fight, or lofes itfelf' in the horizon, is generally defireable ; but then the varieties of its furface grow confufed as it retires; while thofe of a hanging wood are all diftin@; the furtheft parts are held up to the eye; and none are at a diftance, though the whole be ex- tenfive. ~The varieties of a furface are effential to the beauty of it; a continued fmooth fhaven level of foliage is neither agreeable nor natural ; the different growths of trees commonly break it in reality, and ‘their fhadows {till more in ap- pearance. Thefe fhades are fo many tints, which undulating about the furface, are its - greateft embellifhment; and fuch tints may be produced with more effect, and more certainty, by a judicious mixture of greens; at the fame time an additional variety may be introduced, _ by grouping and contrafting trees very different in fhape from each other: and whether variety in the greens or in the forms be the defign, the execution is often eafy, and feldom to a certain degree impoffible. In raifing a young wood it may be perfect; in old woods there are many fpots which may be either thinned or thickened ; and there the charateriftic diftin@ions fhould determine what to ‘plant, or-which to leave; at D 3 the