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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



of the Dutch, who clipped yews into monsters," he 

 acknowledged that there existed gardens, " the work of 

 London and Wise, and such persons as laid out ground in 

 the Dutch taste, which would be much better subjects for 

 modification than for absolute destruction." He admired 

 fine terraces, flights of steps, balustrades, and vases of 

 gardens in the Italian style, and the fountains and water- 

 works of the French. 



Sir Uvedale Price, although he was the champion of 



NARFORD. NO. I. FROM A SKETCH BY EDMOND PRIDEAUX ABOUT iy6l. 



rational landscape gardening, could only justify a "jet 

 d'eau," because such things were to be seen in the form of 

 Geysers. Sir Walter Scott, still more large-minded, felt sure 

 that the captivating beauty " of a magnificent fountain . . . 

 flinging up its waters into the air, and returning down in 

 showers of mist," was in itself sufficient justification. These 

 men who pointed out that some beauties were to be found in 

 the formal garden, and the great folly of ruthlessly destroying 

 everything in that style, gradually arrested the progress of 



