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regard to formal design and a failure to appreciate the satisfac- 

 tion to be obtained from an appropriately terminated vista. 

 Moreover, Repton's estimate of the avenue at Langley Park is 

 most unusual and not in accordance with the present prin- 

 ciples of landscape design. — N.] 



s It is of little consequence from what spot a drawing is 

 taken, since all avenues bear so great a resemblance to each 

 other. I shall here enumerate a few instances in which avenues 

 have been submitted to my consideration. At Cobham Park 

 I give reasons for preserving one, and destroying the rest ; at 

 Prestwood, for retaining the avenue ; at Tatton Park, for 

 quitting the avenue, and planting it up ; at Trewarthenick, an 

 avenue was very easily broken, from its having been planted 

 on uneven ground; and at Brookmans, I elucidate the necessity 

 of fixing on proper trees to form the outline in breaking an 

 avenue ; or if the trees have stood so long near each other 

 that no good outline can be formed, then the tops of some 

 neighbouring trees may be so introduced as in some degree to 

 supply the defect. 



An avenue of firs is the most obstinate to break, because 

 they leave no lateral branches ; and, therefore, in the stupend- 

 ous double row of large silver firs, which the false taste of 

 the last century has planted at Herriard's house, I have advised 

 the destruction of one half, leaving the other as a magnificent 

 specimen of the ancient style in gardening. 



^ This subject has also been mentioned in the following Red 

 Books, viz. Ferney Hall, Rudding Hall, Widdial Hall, Bab- 

 worth, Scrielsby, Milton, Livermere, Garnons, Crewe Hall, 

 Brocklesby, Thoresby, Stoneaston, Nacton, etc. 



7 Essay on the Sublime^ part 11, section 10. 



^ [In the original edition this chapter was entitled " Concern- 

 ing Park Scenery." It has been changed to " Large Private 

 Places " because the word " park " has come to mean some- 

 thing different from what Repton had in mind. — N.] 



9 There is at present no word by which we express that 

 sort of territory adjacent to a country mansion, which, being 

 too large for a garden, too wild for pleasure-ground, and too 



