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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



The orchard. 



Other en- 

 closures. 



Wild 

 gardens. 



LEADEN 5TATUE AT NLWSTEAD 



An orchard was recently laid out beyond the Eagle 

 Pond after some overgrown bushes and half-dead 



trees had been cleared away 

 from its site. One of the 

 main grass paths separating 

 the plantation into four sec- 

 tions is ornamented by two 

 old leaden statues. These 

 images of a faun and his 

 mate were supposed by the 

 ignorant country folk to 

 have been worshipped by the 

 uncle of the poet, popularly 

 known as the wicked Lord Byron. 



Other walled enclosures contain a rosary and a de- 

 lightful flower-bordered kitchen garden. Their general 

 arrangement is as simple as possible, but the position 

 and design of the seats and fountains, and the plant- 

 ing of the beds, are contrived with so much taste and 

 skill that the effect produced is exceptionally charming. 

 Beautiful plantations of exotics, row upon row of 

 rare Japanese iris, Alpine gardens and thickets of 

 bamboo, are also well worth a visit. Taken as a 

 whole, the gardens at Newstead are extraordinarily 

 interesting as showing great variety of treatment and 

 as containing a collection of distinct types, each brought 

 near perfection. To their beauty a weird charm is 



