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a scale of grandeur making them only suitable as a 

 parade-ground for a large number of people. It is The relation 



. . . of the house 



not surprising, therefore, that when a garden-loving to the 

 ancestress of the Marquess of Bath, the present gar 

 owner, designed a new pleasaunce, it was detached 

 from the mansion, although near by. This is often 

 the best arrangement when, in order to coincide 

 with the buildings, gardens would be required entail- 

 ing greater expense or elaboration than seems desir- 

 able or practicable. 



Although laid out only half a century ago, in The general 



effect. 



general effect and detail there is much to suggest 

 that this is a reproduction of a Tudor flower-garden 

 and was uninfluenced by foreign fashions. The 

 ground plan is an almost perfect square, as was 

 always recommended by the early authorities, while 

 the iron arches covered by Virginia creepers, clema- 

 tis, wistaria, China roses, and other climbing plants 

 produce much the same effect as the arched wooden 

 trellis or arbour, common in the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries, and existing at an earlier date. 

 Besides many minor points of resemblance, there are 

 here to be found the three fundamental characteristics 

 of an old garden: an outer enclosure, clearly defined 

 subdivisions, and differences of level. 



The enclosure is formed by a boundary hedge, one Hedges and 



arbours. 



hundred and eighty feet long and about ten feet high, 



