

' FRAGMENT VIII. 



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ON 



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BLENDEN HALL, KENT 





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A VILLA BELONGING TO 



JOHN SMITH, ESQ. M. P. 



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From the relative situation 



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capital, it must be treated as a Villa 



residence. This distinction is necessary to explain the principle 



of its improvement, because in the art of Landscape Gardening 



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require to 



arden. 



two things are often confounded, 



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perfectly distinct, viz. the Landscape 

 the former belong the Lawns, the Woods, the Water, and the 

 rospect; these maybe improved by imitating Mature, but a 

 Garden, as I have often repeated, is a Work of Art. At Blenden 

 Hall the Lawn is beautiful in shape, and its surface enriched 

 with venerable trees, which are sufficiently numerous, without 



the aid of firs and Lombardy poplars; and the boundaries are 

 generally well concealed, or blended with distant woods. 



The Water at present consists of two distinct 



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these 



may be united in appearance, without altering the levels, which 

 would sacrifice too many good trees,' if the lower water were 

 raised, and make the banks too steep, if the upper water were 

 sunk. A bridge however may be so constructed, as to give con- 



tinuity to the water, making it resembl 



assisted by extending th 



would 



be 



a river: and this idea 

 water to the ea-t, as 





