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equally obvious. The contrast between the 

 colour of stone and the various tints of vege- 

 tation must strike every cultivated eye ; while 

 the projections of the parapet, the overhang- 

 ing coping, the catching lights on the ba- 

 lusters, with the deep recesses between them, 

 broken by the festoons of the various climb- 

 ing plants, give a play of light and shade 

 highly pleasing ; and this architectural ar- 

 rangement may be more or less accompanied 

 by trees, as the presiding character of the 

 place shall dictate. 



The consent to the destruction of all that 

 had cost so much to create, and had imparted 

 so much comfort and enjoyment, could not, 

 in several instances, have been obtained with- 

 out many struggles between long attachment 

 and the love of novelty, and would be followed 

 by painful though fruitless regret. Sir Uvedale 

 Price's confession might be echoed by all 

 those who had any reverence for antiquity, 

 any feeling for the picturesque. 



" I may, perhaps," says Sir Uvedale, " have 

 " spoken more feelingly on this subject, from 

 " having done myself what I so condemn in 

 " others — destroyed an old-fashioned garden. 

 " It was not, indeed, in the high style of those 



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