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The had the disadvantage of a disagreeable odour ; 

 ^ r but it was greener in winter and more compact 



Rabi in all seasons. To lay out these knots and tread 

 them required the skill of a master-gardener: 

 much labour was thus expended without pro- 

 ducing any beauty. The walks between them 

 were sometimes of different colours; some 

 would be of lighter or darker gravel, red or yel- 

 low sand : and when such materials were at 

 hand, pulverised coal, and pulverised shells. 

 SuchagardenMr Cradock saw at Bordeaux 

 nolongeragothantheyeari785; it belonged to 

 Monsieur Rabi, a very rich Jew merchant, and 

 was surrounded by a bank of earth, on which 

 there stood about two hundred blue and white 

 flower-pots; the garden itself was a scroll-work 

 cut very narrow, and the interstices rilled with 

 sand of different colours to imitate embroidery; 

 it required repairing after every shower, and if 

 the wind rose, the eyes were sure to suffer. Yet 

 the French admired this and exclaimed, Sup- 

 er be! magnifquel 



Neither Miss Allison nor her niece would 

 have taken anypleasureingardens of this kind, 

 which had nothing of a garden but the name. 

 They both delighted in flowers ; the aunt be- 



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