| Show Old Plea for Gardens Plantations have one advantage In them which Is notto be found In most other works as they give a pleasure of ot a more lasting dat date and continually Improve In the eye of the planter When you have finished a building or any other undertaking of ot the like nature nature na na- na ture ture It Immediately ly decays decays' upon your hands you see It brought to the utmost ut- ut most point of ot perfection and from that time hastening to Its ruin On the contrary when you have finished your they are still arriving at at greater degrees of ot perfection a n along as long as you live and appear more moredo delightful de de delightful In every succeeding year than they did In the foregoing But I do donot donot donot not only recommend nd this art to men of ot estates as a pleasing amusement but butas butas buts as s It is a kind of ot virtuous employment and may therefore be Inculcated by moral motives particularly from the tha love which we ought to have for our country and the regard which wo we ought to bear to our our posterity The extract is is from an essay essay- by Joseph Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph Addison which appeared In the London Spectator August 29 20 1714 England did about as ns Addison suggested suggest suggest- ed with the result that English gardens gardens gardens gar gar- dens are aro noted the world over and Englishmen are better for them |
