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changes that Brown himself might have been proud of, if his 

 achievements were measured by the amount he swept away. 

 He speaks of the alterations in St. James's Park as " the 

 best obliteration of avenues " that " has been effected . . . 

 but it has involved a tremendous destruction of fine elms. 

 Certainly considerable credit redounds to the projector of 

 these improvements for astounding ingenuity in converting 

 a Dutch Canal into a fine flowing river, with incurvated 

 banks, terminated at one end by a planted island, and at 



WOODFORD. NO. 2. FROM THE SAME DRAWING BY H. REPTON, SHOWING THE 

 SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS. 



the other by a peninsula." This was "planned and executed'" 

 by Eyton. The grounds of Buckingham Palace were about 

 this time laid out by William Aiton the younger, son of the 

 author of Hortus Kewensis, the royal gardener at Kensington 

 and Kew. Davis was another landscape gardener of this school, 

 said by his contemporaries to have " displayed considerable 

 taste," especially in the alterations he carried out at Longleat. 

 The two views of Narford (p. 284) show how complete the change 

 from a formal to a landscape garden can be. The cascade pond 

 was sketched between 1716 and 1724 by Edmond Prideaux, 



