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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



THE RAISED WALK. 



Indeed, it is a new region of beauty that lies beyond the river. 

 These dense and magnificent hedges, which would be hard to 

 excel, form an avenue of approach to a gateway, and are the 

 dividing feature of an enclosed tract of garden. The enclosure is 

 by walls and hedges, and the space is subdivided. Here are 

 fruit trees and useful parts of the garden, and the pleasant and 

 decorative form of the pleasaunce is truly admirable. The 

 garden-houses are simple, but quaint and attractive, and all 

 the details are good. 



It may be said of such a situation as this, that it possesses 



tho e element* which the Italian garden-maker loved. Here, 

 at least, is the varied ground of hill and hollow which gave him 

 the opportunity for his terraces and his flights of steps leading 

 from level to level. He would have accentuated by hedges or 

 balustred walls some features which at Easton Hall are left 

 unadorned, but there is something of the distinction of national 

 character in the different manners in which the same essentials 

 are developed. This is as it should ba. Mr. Sieveking, in 

 that fascinating volume " The Praise of Gardens," remark:, 

 that much ridicule has been levelled at Italian pleasaunces for 



THE LCNG TERRACE. 



