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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



The lawn. 



The Palla- 

 dian Bridge. 



sculpture gallery, in accord with the prevalent Italian 

 style. Through the high clipped hedge a vista is 



gained along a straight path 

 extending, on a line with 

 the main axis of the garden, 

 through a plantation of trees 

 for several hundred feet, and 

 terminated by the pavilion 

 known as the Holbein porch. 

 This was designed by Hol- 

 bein for an entrance to the 



THE PALLADIAN BRIDGE '. WILTONJ 



original house, afterward partly destroyed. 



Indirectly the beauty of the lawn, which covers over 

 fifty acres between the formal surroundings of the house 

 and the pretty, though sluggish, river Nader, contributes 

 to the loveliness of the par- 

 terre. It is restful for the 

 eye to glance from the brill- 

 iant flower-beds over the 

 cool stretches of closely 

 shaven turf, relieved from 

 monotony by the occasional 

 interposition of shrubbery 

 and groups of trees. Among 



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the latter are some remarkably fine cedars of Lebanon. 

 The Palladian Bridge, spanning the Nader, forms an- 

 other delightful pavilion. This was formerly attributed 





