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would be best associated with straight walks, and I would leave large square 

 portions of lawn occasionally without any beds at all. The bowling-green, 

 occupying, as it generally does in ancient gardens, the principal front, and 

 thus destroying stillness and repose, I should remodel in the manner described 

 above, and choose a secluded spot elsewhere for the purpose, remote from the 

 gaze of servants; for, although its boundaries might be varied with shrub- 

 beries, &c., yet being of necessity of a flat tame surface, and difficult to be 

 brought into concord with the adjoining ground, it would be far better 

 removed to a distance from the mansion. 



