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adjacent plantations; and osten iikewise destroys the effed
os the scenery, from many distant points of view: and
in fliaping their grounds, they are, sor the same reason,.
equally cautious with regard to the old plantations
carefully observing never to bury the stems, nor to expose
the roots of any trees which they mean to preserve,
In their plantations, the Chinese Artifts do not, as is
the pradice of some European Gardeners, plant indis-
criminately every thing that comes in their way; nor do
they ignorantly imagine, that the whole perfedion of
plantations consists in the variety of the trees and flirubs
of which they are composed : on the contrary, their
pradice is guided by many rules, founded on reason
and long observation, from which • they seldom or ever
deviate,
u Many trees, ssirubs and ssowers/’ sayeth Li-Tsong,.
a Chinese author of great antiquity, “ thrive best in low
C£ moist utuations; many on hills and mountains: some
u require a rich soil 5 but others will grow on clay, in
“ sand3 j
os the scenery, from many distant points of view: and
in fliaping their grounds, they are, sor the same reason,.
equally cautious with regard to the old plantations
carefully observing never to bury the stems, nor to expose
the roots of any trees which they mean to preserve,
In their plantations, the Chinese Artifts do not, as is
the pradice of some European Gardeners, plant indis-
criminately every thing that comes in their way; nor do
they ignorantly imagine, that the whole perfedion of
plantations consists in the variety of the trees and flirubs
of which they are composed : on the contrary, their
pradice is guided by many rules, founded on reason
and long observation, from which • they seldom or ever
deviate,
u Many trees, ssirubs and ssowers/’ sayeth Li-Tsong,.
a Chinese author of great antiquity, “ thrive best in low
C£ moist utuations; many on hills and mountains: some
u require a rich soil 5 but others will grow on clay, in
“ sand3 j