A dissertation on oriental gardening / By Sr. William Chambers.

  • Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.
Date:
1773
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Credit: A dissertation on oriental gardening / By Sr. William Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H But Gardening is of a different nature: its dominion is general; its effects upon the human mind certain and invariable: without any previous information, without being taught, all men are delighted with the gay lux¬ uriant fcenery of fummer, and depreffed at the difmal afpect of autumnal profpects: the charms of cultivation are equally fenfible to the ignorant and the learned; and they are equally difgufted at the rudenefs of neglected nature: lawns, woods, fhrubberies, rivers and mountains, affect them both in the fame manner: and every com¬ bination of thefe, will excite fimilar fenfations in the minds of both. Nor are the productions of this Art lefs permanent than general in their effects: pictures, ftatues, buildings, foon * glut the fight, and grow indifferent to the fpectator : but in gardens there is a continual ftate of fluctuation, that leaves no room for fatiety; the progrefs of vegetation, the viciflitudes of feafons, the changes of the weather, the different directions of the fun, the paflage of clouds, the agitation and founds produced by winds, together with