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JARDINS MODERNES,

Par M. HORACE WALPOLE,

TRADUIT EN FRANCOIS

Par M. LE DUC DE NIVERNOIS,

EN M DCC LXXXIV.

IMPRIMÉ à STRAWBERRY-HILL, par T. KIRGATE,

M DCC LXXXV.

ESSAY

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MODERN GARDENING.

ARDENING was probably one of the firft arts that fucceeded to that of building houfes, and naturally attended property and individual poffeffion. Culinary, and afterwards medicinal herbs, were the objects of every head of family: it became convenient to have them within reach, without feeking them at random in woods, in meadows, and on mountains, as often as they were wanted. When the earth ceafed to furnish Spontaneously all these primitive luxuries, and culture became requifite, feparate inclosures for rearing berbs grew expedient. Fruits were in the Jame predicament, and thofe most in ufe or that demand attention, must have entered into and extended the domeftic inclosure. The good man Noah, we are told, planted a vineyard, drank of the wine, and was drunken, and every body knows the confequences. Thus we acquired kitchen-gardens, orchards, and

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