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

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os husbandry; others again are dove-houses; menageries
sor breeding poultry; or stoves and green-houses, for
railing early rare fruits, vegetables and ssowers: all
judicioussy placed, and designed with taste, though in a-
rustic style.
The lakes and rivers are well stored with flfli and
water-fowl; all the vesiels are contrived for fi£hingr
hunting, and other sports that are profitable as well as-
entertaining; and in their borders they plant, instead of
ssowers, sweet herbs, celery, carrots, potatoes, flrawberries,,
scarletbeans,nasturtiums, endive, cucumbers, melons, pine-
apples, or other handsome fruits and vegetables; while all
the less lightly productions for the kitchen, are carefully
hid behind espaliers of fruit-trees. ?xnd thus, they say,,
every farmer may have a Garden without expence; and,,
that if all land-holders were men of tafle, the world
might be formed into one continued- Garden, without
difficulty.
Such is the substance of what I have hitherto collected
relative to the Gardens of the Chinese, My endeavour..