/N/.\ N 



' 



Char acter 1st u teal . >Ked. 



skill been 



:ily in the cutting, 1'iH 

 in th I'hese 



g.ird< . lingly 



md tlu-ir \ 



quai- irioiis features 



make them attractive to the 

 u-ith. I 



a garden like this enthusi.iMii and 



knowledge XV. , lint !l">v 



than skill in tin- handl 



.ill th .u.iii.n'I, I 



tlon of Klvastim is nut picturesque. 



and h.iJ no i-.ituns <>t l.m 



character, whence probably the 



VN ll| |t- III! i( 



They might never, indeed, have 

 been cre.r ;l> .i> ti. 



for the unpicturesqtie Mtuatmn they 

 occupy, which <-fteis. it \\nnlJ ; 

 fe - i>p|rtunitie> to the laiuN..ipe 

 KarJvncr. : that man t t.mu, 

 "Cpahilit> " B.\v^, s,-eins t have 

 shrunk fmm the \\nrk ni l.i\ in^ <-ut 

 the grounds, for he bluntly wrote to 

 the fourth h.irl nt Mairin^tm. wlv 

 invited him to undertake the t.isk. ii..it 

 and he \viiiiU let well .il. 

 demanded the reason <: 

 replied, " Because the p! Hat. and there is such .1 



want of capability in it." When, thereinre. I.IIKV 

 gardeners look upon the topuitv work oj hl\.i.t.m they mu-t 

 Content, since n^t even 1 :\ : litown himself. 



perhaps the greatest e.\p< iu-nt of the landscape gardening 

 style, sufficed to g.ve the gardens the ch.ira>.ter they mi-lit 

 wish. He presei.ted, hn\\i-\er, to the h.irl n( !' 

 cedars of l.banon, which were planted on the east s.dc o: the 

 house, and jjrew iiito line :m I h.ivi< -MU : 





'if was j|| 

 Whereupon the 

 a ret n. and B 



1Mb 'A\iLI.N AM) EPS. 





It serins difficult : th.it these qu.ii- -I.MJ> 



shap. I at I 

 r..\\t!i. ate n-.i'ly m<Kiern. I ' ' 



.impll. S Mil til II.' .lk:il I" Ci-llHIN vv.ls nee.led l'r it* 



:ion. The inliiul. H-. -'t all i-\i-nt-. 



\\.is the- :e the H ' :'ie Alha::. < , ,U-n. 



the \' I), and i.tiu ; sti.. 



tin- trivs must tv plant..), .in.) hn^lan.: 

 able evanipli f tree-pi ' 



by Ch.ir . I 



of trr.-s, many th.-in MI. Iroi: In 



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A VISIA IX IHI |x)HAJS OF g> 



