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walls. 



fruit garden may 



e so blended with flowers an 



vegetables, as to be interesting in all seasons ; an 



th 



e 



delight 



of a garden highly cultivated, and neatly kept, is amongst the 

 purest pleasures which man can enjoy on earth.* 



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The Pleasures of a Garden have of late been very much neglected. About the 

 middle of the last century, the introduction of Landscape operated to the exclusion 

 of the old Gardens of England, and all straight Gravel Walks. Glades of grass and 

 clipped hedges were condemned as formal and old fashioned ; not considering that 

 Where the style of the house preserved its ancient character, the Gardens midit with 



propriety partake of the same 



After this, a taste, or almost a rage for farming, su- 



perseded the delights of a Garden ; in many cases for the mercenary reason, that a sack 





of potatoes woidd sell for more than a basket of roses or lavender 



It is with peculiar 



satisfaction that I have occasionally observed some few venerable Gardens belonging 

 parsonage or old manor houses, where still may be traced the former grass walks and 

 box-edged borders, with thick and lofty hedges of holley, quickset, or other topiary 



plants 



a fence at once secure, and neat, and opakely trim 



like the yew or ivy, seem to display a peculiar satisfaction in yielding 





