Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

gardens. There are indeed very few in our part of the
globe, wherein nature has been improved to the best
advantage, or art employed with the sounded: judgment.
The gardens of Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and os
all the other countries where the antient style Rill prevails,
are in general mere cities of verdure; their walks, like
streets, all conduced in strait lines, diverge from dif-
ferent large open Spaces, resembling public Squares; and
the hedges with which they are bordered, rise in imi-
tation of walls, adorned with pilaflers, niches, windows
and doors; or they are cut into colonades, arcades and
porticos: all the detached trees are draped like obelilks,
pyramids and vases; and all the recedes in the thickets
bear the names and sorms of theatres, amphitheatres,
temples, banqueting-halls, ball-rooms, cabinets and
salcons. The flreets and squares are well manned with
statues of marble or lead, ranged in regular lines, like
soldiers at a procession; which, to make them more
natural, are sometimes painted in proper colours, and
finely gilt. The lakes and rivers, confined by quais
of hewn Rone, are taught to ssow in geometrick order;
and