194 ^f ^^^ Parterre. 



can't poffibly be put in any the lead Competi- 

 tion with it. But if any are fo curious, there 

 is now at Brumpton Park, a very great Stock 

 of tall ftandard Yews, that will retain their 

 Leaves all Winter, and are, indeed, an im- 

 mediate and beautiful Shade. 



This cutting their tall Pyramid Yews into 

 Statues, feems to have been one of the beft 

 Thoughts that has fali'n in the Way of Gar- 

 dening for fome Years. The noble Verdure 

 and Shade that thofe Yews make, can't but 

 recommend t hem to the Choice of this, as 

 well a^ the Umbrage of the lateft Age. 



As for the Wood on each Side, it is not ve- 

 ry pertinent in this Place (being upon Parter- 

 res) to fay much of it : The upper Side is cut 

 into long private Walks, which, altho' they 

 have not that Beauty upon Paper, that Figures 

 in Wood have^ are yet much more retir'd and 

 private 5 the Want of which I take to be a 

 very great Fault in mofl of our Englifh Gar- 

 dens^ but this is already touched upon, and 

 will more abundantly in the Sequel of this 

 Book. 



At the farther End is a large, open, rifing 

 Law^n, and thereon a Statue, which will 

 have no mean EfFed, in refpeft to its being a 

 rifing Hill, which otFght to be plac'd amongtt 

 the greateft Beauties in Nature. 



The oppofite Divifion, on the lower Side, 

 is cut out into little narrow Walks, after a 

 Labyrinth Manner. 



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