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

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ditch, and many luflhoufes hanging over it, for smoking
tobacco ; nor is there any elegance, without some tons
os lead, transformed into ssoating Dutchmen, Harlequins,
and ssuting Sh ep her desies, all richly painted, in proper
colours: azure ssower-pots, with gilt handles, are seen
in every corner; and golden mercury are perched, like
birds, upon every pinnacle : every pass is guarded by
pasteboard Grenadiers; and Fame, straddling over the
entrance, displays a Dutch label to the pasienger, telling
the name and beauties of the place, the virtues and
moral opinions of the proprietor. These particularities,
with all the sormal absurd parts of the French Gardening,
make an Eden in Holland; a thing too ridiculous to be
out os humour with any where ; ’tis a pity it has had so
serious an essect upon you. You are a wise people; yet,
in the reformation of Gardening, you have followed the
beaten road of ignorance: to avoid one sault, you have
run headlong into another, its opposste : because, in
the Old Gardening, art, order and variety, 'were carried
to an extravagant excess, you have, in the New, almost
totally excluded them all three: to mend an exuberant,
fantastick