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successfully transformed into a formal garden, with 

 trees in tubs and boxes of flowers. 



Some of the squares have finer trees than others, and 

 in many a statue is a feature. Originally these statues 

 formed the central object towards which the garden 

 paths converged, but most of the central statues have 



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Winter Garden, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square 



been moved, though in a few, like St. James's and 

 Golden Squares, they are still in the middle. These 

 statues were evidently a good deal thought of by 

 Londoners, but they did not strike foreigners as very 

 good. In one of Mirabeau's letters he writes in 1784 

 from London: "The public monuments in honour of 

 Sovereigns, reflect little honour on English Sculpture. 

 , . . The Statues of the last Kings, which adorn the 



