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G.
from limiled to emnfi,'c vieIV5, and from lake5 and ri·
"ers to plains, hills, and WOOdi: to dark
~nd
gloomy
~oIQurs,
are oppofed the more brilliant: Ihe dtffelent
malfes of light and Ihade are difpofed in fuch a manner,
~I
to render Ihe compofilion dillinll in il5 parts, and
ihiking on the IVhole. In plantations, the trm are art–
fully mixcd according
10
Iheir /bape and colour; thofe
of fprcading branches with Ibe pyramidal, and the ligbt
green IVi lb the deep grecn. They even inlroduce decayed
trm,
fome crcé!, and fome half out of the ground.
In
order to heighlen contralt, much bolder Orokes are rilk·
td : they fomelimes introduce rough rock!, dark caveros,
Irees ill formed and feeminglyrent by tempell5 or blalled
by !ightning, a building in ruins or half confumed by
Iire. But tO relieve Ihe mind from the harOlnefs of fu ch
objeéls, they are alIVays fucceeded by the fweetell aod
moll beautiful-fcenes_
The 'Chinefc (tudy to give play to the imagination.
lJ'hey hide rhe·terminarion of rheir lakes: Ihe ,iew of
a
cafcade is frequently intcrrupted by-trees, through which
are feeo obrcorely-rhe Ivarers as tbey fal l. The imagi–
nJtioo otlCe roufed, is difpofed to magnify every objeé!.
Nothing is more Oudied in Chinefe gardm thao to
nife wonder or furrrize.
In
fceoes
ealcul~ted
for that
eod, every thiog appears like fai ry· hod ; a torrent, for
~xample,
conveyed onder gro\lnd, puzzling alIranger by
its uncommon fouod
to
goefs
~vhat
it may be ; and, to
multiply fuch unConnTlon founds, the rocks and buildings
are contrived with cavities and interllices. Sometimes
one is led infenfibly into a dark cavem, terminaring uo·
e~peéledly
in a landfcape inriched witb all that nature
afl'ords the moll delicious. At other times, beautiful
walk¡ infenfibly eondull us to a rough uncultivated field,
where bu/bes, briers, and (Iones interrupt the patrage:
when we look about for an outlet, fome rieh profpell
bnexpeéledly opeos to .iew. Aoother artifice is, to oh–
fcure fome capital parl by trm or otber interpofed ob·
jeéls : our curiofilY is raifed to knowwhat Iies beyood
j
~nd
after afew (leps, we are greatly furprized with fome
(cene totally different from what was expeéled.
Thefe curfory obfervations upon gHdening, /ball be
c10red with fome reAellions. Rough uncultivated ground,
difmal to the eye, iofpires peevi/bnefs and dircoOlent:
m~y
not this be one caofe of the har/b manners of fa·
"ges? A field richly oroamented, eontaining beautiful
abjeéls of mious kinds, difplays, in fulllu(Jre, the good·
nefs of the Deity, and lhe ampre provifion he has made
(or our happinefs; whieh mu(J filJ every (peélalor with
Srarirude to his Maker, and with benevolence to his fel·
low.crealures. Olher fine am may be pervertcd tO ex–
cite irregular, and even vicious, emolions: but garden–
ing, which infpires the purel! and moll refined pleafures,
eannOl bU! promore every good affeélion. The gaiety
~nd
hormony of mind it produceth, inclining Ihe fpeamr
lO communicm his fatisfaélion to 0rhel'!, and 10 make
,hcm
happy
as
he bimfel( is, tend natudUy to eH.blifh
in
him a habil of humaoiry and benevolence.
,HAV1
He
thus unfolded lhe general principies of gar.
JIIeoiog, that have an
in~ueoce up~n
talle or maoDers;
l'Ie
/b~1I
now fubjoin the praél.ical part, iD the form of a c¡–
leodar.
J
A N U A R Y.
FLOWE
R' GUB!N.
THIS is the proper time for planting roolS of the ra–
Ilunculus
j
the foil/bould be rich and fandy, and rhey
/bould be plaotcd at leall Ihree inches deep. By laying
a quantity of earlh made of old thatch or (lraw, about
feven inches beoe'th the furface of the ground, aod then
filling it up \Vith rich mould, a prodigious number of rhefe
flowers m!y be produeed. A fine emh may likewife be
made of tanoer's
b~rk,
or tbe boltom of
a
wood pile,
well mixed with about a third of Datural foil, "bich wiU
prove peculiarly ferviceable.
As the wind and froll are very prejudicial to earoa–
tions and auriculas, they fuould this mooth be kept co.
vered.
Anemonies Ihould be planted in beds of fioe eanh ; no
duna mull be ofed in planring Ihem. The roots of thefe
Aowers may be iocreafed by breakiog the knotl, about
the fize of a fmall bulton, afunder, and lettiDg Ihem lie
two or three days io the fun, before you plaot fhem.
1I
/bould be remembered. that the roou of the anemooy
are to be taken up about the eod of Jene or the beginning
of July ; after being dried in the fuo, they OlOuld be
preferved in adry cool place, or kept in fand for amonlh,–
and rhen pUl io papers till the feafoo for plantiog them.
When thefe roots are firll tranfplanted, a thin layer of
willow·earth, or rolteo fally-wood, beiog put undee
Ihem, forwards tbeir growth.
F RUIT·GARDEN.
TH E prunning of pears, viDes, aod plumbs, is the
cI,ief employment of this monrh. In pruning the pear.
mofe buds which appear fuller tban the rell /bould be
carefully preferved; all branches thar proceed from the
knob, whereon the (Jalk of a pear grew, are .tO be taken
away, but the knob mull remaio; and the extremity of
the lall year's pruning is to be talen off.
As the large braoches of a pear·tree are ufeJefs in
bearing, care /bould be taken to extend lhe
br¡oche~
fideways, and none but fmall branches fufTered tO grol'/
in rhe middle, and not even thofe to grow clireélly
per~
pendicular, as, by that means, they would fooo become
what is ealled
g""
'VJDDd.
A pear·tree thar is vigorous and IQxuriant /bould nOI
be pruned ti)1 afrer it has begun ro/boor. A languilh!ng
pear·tree may be rel!ored to its former lIate by pruolOg
and removal into better ground. Another very
~ood
method of Ireating pear·trees nor in a bearing nate,
IS (O
bark Ihe luxuriant brancl"s all round about
a
qu'rter of
1m
inch wide, more or lefs, according ro their lIrength.
Apple.trm will ilkelVife be,r this operarion, which
Ihould be dooe in April. Trees tbat
are
too vigorou!
may be made tO bear by euning off rhe fap roou, or ta·
kiog
them up, aod
re·fctti~g
.meol, for lhey are ofre.
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