R A D F I E L D, 

 DEVON. 



B!\ MM I KIT) is of the best of the old Devon 

 houses, and has, of late times, been reno- 

 v.ited and developed with thoughtful care 

 and much success. We hold strongly that 

 a house should have some relation to its sur- 

 roundings that its gardens and grounds should be, 

 as it were, a further extension of itself. We are too 

 apt in this country to think that our dwelling-places 

 are enclosed within four walls, and that the gardens 

 which adorn them arc a region apart. This springs, 

 no doubt, from the nature of our climate ; but in 

 Italy and France the great garden designers never 

 forgot that the dwelling-place included the gardens 

 also. In our own country the old gardeners had the 



s.iiiu- uli-.i. I'hey also constructed banqueting houses 

 and garden buildings of other kinds, which tempted 

 people to make use of their gardens, as one may 

 -.iv, tor residential purposes. It was, moreover, the 

 practice to carry the spirit of architecture into the 

 pleasaunce- to ireate, at least within the immediate 

 vicinity of the house, rectangular or somewhat formal 

 arrangements, and to plant hedges and train columnar 

 trees or bushes to give a verdant approach to archi- 

 tectural forms. These remarks are made because, 

 although the gardens of Bradficld, as they are now 

 planned, are not old, they are carried out much in 

 the spirit of older times, and they present features 

 which might well be an example or inspiration to 





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