170 



ary, whether it be a wall or a pale, my business is to hide it, and 



not to lead a Drive so near 



\ 



to display it 



n this instance, the fashion of Drives ha 



fash 



passed from one extreme to th 



other 



like 

 The 



all oth 



ancient 



was in an 



modern 



through the middle of 



a 



rive avoids the middl 



pari 



th 



e 



and skirts 



although two thirds 



which 



ha\ 



of the pi 



d its border 



? 



have visited 



to 



Belt and a D 



ggested improvements 

 i, yet 



are 



must beg leave to 



unrounded by a 

 peat my protest 



gainst that sort of modern Belt, by which Mr. Brown's foil 



have brought disgrace on the genius and good taste of th 



master 





- * 



THE DRIVES. 





Before I speak of the Drives at Woburn 



to tra 



the progress of fash 



hall endeav 



Planting; by which I 



1 . — o? ~j "iiiv.ii x JJlCclIl 



the vanous systems adopted at different periods for making trees 

 artificial ornaments. The first was doubtless that of »lk 



e first was doubtless that 



plantin 



them in a single row at eqnal distances; and this prevailed 



straight rows, to form 





the gardens mentioned by Plinj 



The next step was in doubling th 

 shady walks ; but fashion, not content with the simpli city of 



z ;^:r;: f t/t* opposite to each ** ^ 



As the eagerness of adopting this fashio 





Id not alway 



s 



