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Wickham, 7 miles to Lord Shelburn's [we thought] he would 

 by this time have made some tolerable garden or cut fine walks 

 in the woods that cover the hills about him, but we were 

 entirely disappointed ; the wood is neglected ; the gardens 

 which are but 4 acres, without tast and neglected too, and the 

 house fourty times worse than Lady Bidulf s on blackheath." 

 " Col. Tyrrel's called Shotover (near Oxford) about two miles 

 [further on] . . . There is plenty of wood and water about the 

 house, and both brought into the circuit of the garden, with 

 regularity and bewty. A large octogon bason on the west, and 

 two canals on the east ; the walks, parterres, terraces, and 

 avenues are agreably separated by groves of reverend oak, beech 

 and elm trees ; in a word, his garden is already compleated and 

 yet he still goes on to gratify his good tast." Lord Percival was 

 evidently a friend of Sir William Temple's nephew, as he refers 

 to him frequently in other letters. It is interesting to follow 

 the history of the garden at Moor Park. The following letter is 

 dated August 25th, 1724 : " Called on Jack Temple who lives 

 a mile from Farnham. ... It was purchased by the famous 

 Sir William Temple, who took great delight in it, and made part 

 of the garden, but this gentleman, his nephew, has greatly 

 added to it, and rendered it indeed a very pleasant seat. He 

 has the advantage of a branch of the River Wye, which is 

 brought into the midst of his garden, and supply's two pretty 

 cascades. In the Parterre are 4 Antique Statues a young 

 Papyrius and his companion a Bacchus, and Diana." 



The same year Lord Percival went into Norfolk and Suffolk. 

 He visited Euston, which he thus describes : " Neither are the 

 gardens as yet considerable, being but young, and his trees not 

 well grown. He has a very fine canal, that confines one side, 

 and at the end of his gravel walk is a large bason with a lake 

 beyond it."* And Lord Oxford's place, " Chipman, 3 miles 

 north of Newmarket. The gardens are 50 acres, and have 

 a good deal of variety, a fine bowling-green, very high hedge- 

 rows cut into vistos, long tracts and walks, from which you 

 see several miles into the country through well-grown avenues. 

 There is a canal in the shape of a T 1000 foot long, and 

 * See illustration page 201. 



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