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sive, when enclosed in the usual way by lofty scarlet walls 



yet if the walls were to be disposed in terraces 

 ornamental by piers or 



rendered 



arches for each tree recessed 



the 



unsightly feature ; 

 from the relative situation of the Cottage, the proposed 



Garden at Endsleigh might be made no 



seen 



but, 



Conservatory and the Plantations, it would be very littl 



The same intervening objects which tend to hide the walls from 

 the View in the Valley, will also tend to intercept the current 

 of air during the sweeping gusts of wind and fog from the 

 South Western Mountains, at the same time that, from their 



have 



declivity, the Sun's rays will act with uninterrupted f< 

 We read of the hanging Gardens of Babylon, an 



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heard described by (an eye-witness) something similar in 



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the Gardens still existing near Damascus.* Of all the comforts 

 belonging to a Garden, there is none more delightful than the 



Cov 



ere 



Way, or rustic Corridor of Woburn 



such 



a 



line 



of communication naturally suggests 



itself 



i 



ere from the 



Cottage to the Conservatory 



houses, Terrace Garden, &c. 



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and from thence to the Forcing 



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From these hints I will confess that in two other situations I have recommended a 

 similar disposal of Garden in Terraces : but with this difference, at Beau Desert (Marquis 

 of Anglesea's) the shape of the ground requires the walls to be straight; at Sherringham 

 Bower, (Mr. Upcher's,) the walls were proposed convex, and the ground behind the Cot- 



tage at Endsleigh requires 



walls to be 



thus the same expedient may be 



varied to suit various situations, but all contributing to the comfort of habitation 





