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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



destruction as well as improvement, for two rows of trees, 

 forming part of one of the avenues planted about 1699, 

 were felled by his orders. He was lost in admiration of the 

 rivers and lakes he created. Having completed one of these, 

 he thought he had achieved such a success as to surpass 

 the Thames, and is said to have exclaimed : " Thames ! 

 Thames ! thou wilt never forgive me ! " At Hackwood Park,* 

 in Hampshire, Brown effected various changes, which were 



CASTLE ASHBY. 



thus spoken of a few years later : " Alterations on a con- 

 siderable scale " were carried out, particularly on the south 

 of the house, where there had been a garden, " in the 

 old style, with terraces, ascended by flights of steps, and 

 adorned with statues on pedestals, a great reservoir of water, 

 angular ramparts, &c. ; the view from the house was also 

 interrupted by high yew hedges skirting long and formal 



* The seat of Lord Bolton. 



