An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason.

  • Mason, George, 1735-1806.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    meaning of pi6turefque. Thus much about this naturalized word.] And thus much alfo as to my ufage of gardening *, I thought ne- ceffary to premife; becaufe of the more ge- neral import, not only of garden, but of its fynonimous term too in different languages. Its latitude of fignification may perhaps be accounted for from the practice of the Eaft. There the foil and climate brought forth herbs and fruit-trees with little cultivation, and in their natural luxuriance. There ele- gance and fertility were confequently united; and every pleafure or convenience, which the whole vegetable creation could fupplv, this Eaftern model comprehended. ['* This fenfe of gardening is now pretty well eltablifhed; hut. was more controvertible when this eflay was written.] AN-