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can hardly expect that the 



sweep 



of win '-fence 



but as it musl very soon perish, 

 t a different line for the future 



should be immediately altered; 



it becomes my duty to point or 



more durable boundary of the Gardens: and this a l 



throw out two or three acres of ground, whieh must other 



be kept mown, since no plantations can possibly l>< made il 



ition 



without injuring 1 1 



\ 



of the park. The only use that 



Id 



be made of these three acres would be an open cricket -ground 



which may either be in the park, or excluded from it, yet 21 

 pear one surface with the intermediate space of lawn, wine 

 have called the Bowling-green. This is an appendage perfectly 

 accordant with the ideal date and character of the building; 

 and would be made still more perfect, by extending t lie walk 

 from the east terrace, to form the quadrangle complete. 'I hese 



walks may all 



e considered as part of the original artificial 

 and truly magnificent style of Gardening in former times, when 

 the works of Art were avowed as artificial, their costliness be- 



speaking their value. 



* I cannot here omit mentioning the having been present when Mrs. Siddons ob- 

 jected to the straight braids represented in her celebrated picture in the character of 

 the Tragic Muse ; and requested Sir Joshua Reynolds to let the hair flow in more 

 graceful ringlets ; but that great master observed, that without straigl 

 might he grace or beauty, but there could be no greatness or sublimity 



and 



1 



pplies to Gardening as to Painting 



It was therefore with peculiar satisfaction 



that I observed the straight lines of walks near the house, and that mall to the east in 

 a line with the trees, which Mr. James Wyatt had advised. 





