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

inwards r that all may be exposed to'view at the same-
time. They appropriate certain plants to low moist
iituations; and others to those that are dry and lofty
stridly attending therein to Nature: for though a willow,,
say they, may grow upon a mountain, or an oak in a
bog, yet are not these by any means natural situations
for either,

■ When the patron is rich, they consider nothing but
perfedion in their plantations: but when he is poor,
they have also an eye to oeconomy; introducing suck
plants, trees and buildings, into their design, as are not
only beautiful, but usesul. Instead of lawns, they have
meadows and fields, covered with sheep and other cattle;
or lands planted with rice and cotton, or sowed with
corn, turneps, beans, pease, hemp, and other things
that produce ssowers, or variegated pieces os colouring.
The groves are composed of all useful kinds of fruit-
trees ; such as apple, pear, cherry, mulberry, plumb, apri- -
cot, pomegranate, fig, olive, and filbert, with the tse-tse,
li-chi, long-yew, tsin-lau, and many others, peculiar to
China,