154 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 



Secretary to the Admiralty, who owned the place for a 

 few short years. Nearly every vestige of the surround- 

 ings of the old manor was obliterated and improved away 

 by Humphrey Repton, the celebrated landscape gardener. 

 He filled up most of the old moat, except a small piece, 

 which was transformed into a lake, more in harmony 

 with the landscape school to which he belonged. This 

 piece of water is a pretty feature in the Park, and an 

 attempt has been made to recall the older style, by intro- 

 ducing a little formal garden in an angle of the enclosing 

 wall of the Park. The square has been completed with 

 two hedges, one of them of holly, and good iron gates 

 afford an entrance. The *' old English garden," from 

 which dogs and young children, unless under proper 

 supervision, are excluded, is laid out in good taste — a 

 simple, suitable design, with appropriate masses of roses 

 and herbaceous plants, arches with climbers, and an 

 abundance of seats. It has the same misleading notice 

 with regard to Shakespearian plants, as in Golder's Hill 

 and Brockwell, one of the South London Parks, which 

 must now be looked at. 



