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that are allowed to run wild, except the margins next the 

 path; still beyond, are the vegetable and fruit gardens, hot 

 houses, pits, &c., on a magnificent scale. 



To the left of the Hall are plantations about twelve years 

 old, containing a great variety of the choicest kinds of trees 

 and shrubs ; beyond which is the village. 



On the entrance front the ground is nearly level with the 

 first floor of the mansion, for two or three hundred feet in 

 width ; back of which, is a terrace rising twelve or fifteen 

 feet, and from the rear of the second terrace, the ground 

 rises in natural slopes, and is covered with wood of a moder- 

 ate growth. The approach is short and straight, and leaves 

 the public road at nearly a right angle. 



The terraces are formed at an immense expense, and har- 

 monize well with the mansion ; the transition from these ter- 

 races to the lawn, and from the lawn to the woods is too 

 abrupt — a fault difficult to avoid when so much space is 

 appropriated to the geometrical gardens, and the remainder 

 so circumscribed. On the whole, I am disposed to give Mr. 

 Michel (who has been the head gardener for eighteen years, 

 and who designed and directed the improvements,) consider- 

 able praise for his skill and taste. 



TATTON PARK, THE SEAT OF WILBRAHAM EGERTON, ESQ. 



As this is one of the largest parks in England (containing 

 2;200 acres,) and one that Humphrey Repton, Esq., im- 

 proved, and subsequently published some accounts of, with 

 his reasons for certain improvements he recommended in his 

 work on Landscape Gardening, it has more than the usual 

 interest attached to such places. It may, therefore, be inter- 

 esting to some to know something of what it was in 1790, 

 and what it is now ; so, at the risk of being considered tedi- 

 ous, I will endeavor to perform the task in as brief a manner 

 as possible. 



At the time Mr. Repton was called upon to suggest im- 

 provements in Tatton Park, the approach was an avenue, or 

 two straight rows of beech trees seventy-five feet apart, and 

 extending from the town of Runtsford, in a direct line, two 



