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VIEW TO THE SOUTH. 



This view is confined to the private front of the mansion 



I is appropriated to the family apartments. 



To th 



wl 



clesp 



an 



wl 



every thing they call old fashioned 



10, 



supposing the perfection of Gardening to consist in 



wax ing lines, are apt to shrink from every thing straight or for 

 mal, this part of the plan for Beaudesert may give offence 



but 



the venerahle d ignity of th is place is not to be measured by the 



the spruce modern seat of sudden affluence 



scale of 



be-belted and he-clumped in the newest style of the modern taste 



of Landscape Gardening 



No 



rather let us go back to former 



times, when the lofty terraces of ^ privy garden gave protection 

 and seclusion to the noble persons, who with 



retired 



In trim gardens took their pi 



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To tl.is may be added, the modern luxury of hothouses and 

 servatones, with all tW ««.;«.— „,u:„u . •. . . 



e 



e agremens, which excite interest 



cultivation of every species of flower that 



in 



eye by its colours, or gratify the smell by its perfumes 

 "~ small satisfaction to have discovered from 



can delight the 



and it 



t"<; |>, mises, that in the line of the terrace 



this 



'icial and architectural Gard 



to what 



old labourers on 



and other parts of 



en, we are restoring the 



cen t u ry 



ey remember it in the beginning of the last 



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