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gardcn at * Guhbîns in Hertfordfiire many detached thoughts, 

 tbat Jîrongly indicate tbe dawn of modem tafte. Ai • hu 

 reformation gained footings he ventured farther, and in the 

 royal garden at Richmoiid dared to introduce cultivated fields, 

 and even morfels of a foreft appearance, by tbe fides of 

 tbofe endlcfi and tirefome walks, tbat Jîretcbed out of one 

 into anotber witbout intermiffîon. But tbis was not till 

 otbcr innovators bad broke loofe too from rigid fymmetry. 



But tbe capital firoke, tbe leading ftep to ail tbat bas 

 followedy was [I believe tbe firfi tbougbt was Bridgmans\ 

 the deJîruBion of w ails for boundaries, and tbe invention of 

 fojés—'^an attempt tben deemed fo afîonifiing^ tbat the com" 

 7non people called tbem Ha ! Ha s ! to exprefs their furprize 

 at finding a fudden and unperceived check to their walk. 



One of the firfi gardens planted in tbis fimple tbough fiill 

 formai fiyky was my fat b ers at Houghton. It was laid 



out 



* The feat of ihe laie fir Jeremy SamBroke. It had formtrly heîonged t9 

 lady More, mother-in-law of fir Thomas More, and had been tyrannically 

 wrenchtdfrom her by Henry VIII. on the exécution offir Thomas, thotigh not ber 

 fon, and though her jointure from a former hufband. 



