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OF MODERN GARDENING. 



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When the straight walks and lofty walls of ancient garden- 

 ing had disgusted by their sameness, prevailing in all places 



alike, whether great or small, it was naturally to be expected 

 that fashion would run into the opposite extreme, by making 

 every tiling curved as the greatest contrast to straight. To the 

 little interest we experience after the first hundred paces, in a 

 meandering walk betwixt two broad verges of grass, at a great 

 distance from the beds of flowers and shrubs, may be added the 



g together in such a manner every kind of 



mistak 



of 



mixin 



plant, that no one part of the garden differs from anoth 





Yet 



th 



are many pleasure-grounds of this kind, with walks of 



tedious length, which I have shuddered to encounter 



for this 



reason I have never advised such walks, except as the connect 

 ing lines leading to other objects. 



WATER. 



The Water at Ashridge is by art brought from a deep well 



dug by the monk 



1 



must be pumped up into 



mmediately under the chapel 



this 



Now it would be possibl 



to lead pipes from these reservoirs in such a manner, that every 

 drop of water used for the gardens should 



e made visibl 



— £ UJU ^ U a auuum ^ maae visible m 

 different ways, beginning with a conduit in front of the conser- 



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It will perhaps be objected, that this same idea has already appeared in the pre 



ceding fragment ; but such 



like this, collected from various detached subj 



petitions must occasionally be unavoidable 



work 





