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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Sedgwick 

 Park. 



Barrow 

 Court. 



garden showing considerable originality. Its maker 

 had travelled widely and found inspiration in many 

 French and Italian gardens, but the features she bor- 

 rowed from them were adapted in such a way as to 

 give her garden a distinctive character. A pretty and 

 unusual enclosure contains an oblong tank of water, 

 so arranged that it can be used for a swimming-pool. 

 Beside the water is an alcove in the wall retaining 

 the terrace above, which forms a pleasant substitute 

 for a grotto. 



Some interesting gardens have been rearranged and 

 supplemented by others, under the direction of Mr. F. 



Inigo Thomas, at 

 Barrow Court. The 

 alterations and addi- 

 tions were executed 

 about the year 1892. 

 Originally beside the 

 old house there was 

 a terrace, and beneath 

 it a formal garden surrounded by yew hedges and 

 enclosing a pond : these were slightly modified by Mr. 

 Thomas. 



The new work was accomplished in the park beyond 

 the first garden. A wide strip of ground running east 

 and west was levelled, leaving a high bank below the 

 flower-garden with a drop of some six feet into the 



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