He Looks For Plats Of Flowers In Different Parts
To Refresh The Sense, And Please The Fancy; For Arbours, Grottos,
Hermitages, temples, and alcoves, to shelter him from the sun,
and afford him means of contemplation and repose; and he
Expects
to find the hedges, groves, and walks, and lawns kept with the
utmost order and propriety. He who loves the beauties of simple
nature, and the charms of neatness will seek for them in vain
amidst the groves of Italy. In the garden of the Villa Pinciana,
there is a plantation of four hundred pines, which the Italians
view with rapture and admiration: there is likewise a long walk,
of trees extending from the garden-gate to the palace; and plenty
of shade, with alleys and hedges in different parts of the
ground: but the groves are neglected; the walks are laid with
nothing but common mould or sand, black and dusty; the hedges are
tall, thin and shabby; the trees stunted; the open ground, brown
and parched, has scarce any appearance of verdure. The flat,
regular alleys of evergreens are cut into fantastic figures; the
flower gardens embellished with thin cyphers and flourished
figures in box, while the flowers grow in rows of earthen-pots,
and the ground appears as dusky as if it was covered with the
cinders of a blacksmith's forge. The water, of which there is
great plenty, instead of being collected in large pieces, or
conveyed in little rivulets and streams to refresh the thirsty
soil, or managed so as to form agreeable cascades, is squirted
from fountains in different parts of the garden, through tubes
little bigger than common glyster-pipes.
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