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doors and windows; and were only kept from the corridore by 

 a chain or hurdle put across the arches. It is obvious, under 



such circumstances, that there could be no walks, no privacy, 

 no enjoyment of garden luxuries, either for pleasure or for use: 



neither fruit nor vegetables could be raised upon the pre- 



mises. 



There were two modes of treating this subject, according to 

 the modern system of Landscape Gardening. The first was to 

 enclose the whole area granted, by a belt of trees and shrubs : 

 this would have excluded all view into the park, and reduced 

 the situation to that of any villa on Clapham Common. The 

 other mode was that which I found actually begun, viz. to 

 surround the whole with an open or invisible fence, to unite in 

 appearance the Ground of the Park with that of the enclosure, 

 bringing to the same level the surface where it was irregular' 

 This would have completely destroyed every advantage of 



privacy, of convenience, or of use, in the acquisition from this 

 new g ran t. I was therefore driyen tQ suggest a ^ ^^ 



which in these Fragments has or will be frequently mentioned 

 viz to adopt a decided artificial Character for the Garden 

 boldly reverting to the ancient formal style, which by _ 

 will be condemned as departing from the imitation of Nature 



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and by such treatment is now secured to th 

 ample portion of ground for fruit and vegetables o/every kind 

 yet these are so enveloped in skreens of shrubbery and garden 

 flowers, as to be no where visible or offensive. At the same 

 • " by preserving the inequalities in the ground, which were 



time. 



