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advantage. It is not therefore in compliance with the modern 

 fashion of Gardening that I advise the removal of a few tall 



trees, but in conformity to taste, founded on 



and which 



dictates that the character of Greatness, in a work of Art, should 



not 



e obliterated by the niore powerful agency of Nature : 

 and without wishing to go back to that taste which prevailed 

 when this vast pile was surrounded by cut shrubs, and avenues 

 of young trees n< 



might be restored 



wly planted, I think some of its grand 

 by judiciously removing some o 



the 



en 



croachments of vegetation 



