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lawn front is an ex- 

 tensive flower-gar- 

 den on an even sur- 

 face, with a consider- 

 able piece of water 

 bordered by lawn and 

 trees in the middle 

 distance ; and where 

 the background is 

 scenery of the same 

 description, without 

 the appearance of 

 hills, or any marked 

 feature, natural or 

 artificial. At East- 

 well Park in Kent, 

 the seat of the Earl 

 of Winchelsea, where 

 the whole of the sur- 

 face seen from the 

 lawn front is flat and 

 uninteresting, an ex- 

 tensive flower-garden 

 is very properly in- 

 troduced ; without 

 which the views from 

 the windows of that 

 side of the house 

 would have very little 

 beauty. On the other 

 hand, the lawn front 

 at Linton Place in 

 Kent, the seat of 

 Earl Cornwallis, 

 looking down on 

 a steep descent, at 

 the foot of which 

 is a stream winding 

 through a fertile val- 

 ley, beyond which is 

 an extensive and 

 somewhat varied dis- 

 tance, flowers in the 

 foreground would 

 here escape notice ; 

 or, if extensively dis- 

 played, would inter- 

 fere with the strongly 

 marked natural cha- 

 racter of the scene. 

 These may be consi- 



