A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening

It would' be tedious to enumerate all the errors of a falfe taile: but the havock it has made in our old plan tarions, muft ever be remembered with indignation. The ax has often, in one day, laid waite the growth of feveral ages; and thoufands of venerable plants, whole woods of them, have been fwept away, to make room for a little grafs, and a few American weeds. Our vir tuofi have fcarcely left an acre of fhade, nor three trees growmg in a line, from the Land's-end to the Tweed and if their humour for devafiation continues to rage much longer, there will not be a forefi-tree left {landing.

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