io8 THE ART AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



entrances. The ground inside the newly acquired land was laid 

 out somewhat formally, being intended rather for effect than use. 

 It was made to include a large fountain with jets in form of 

 Prince of Wales' feathers, and two flower gardens were enclosed 

 by yew hedges. The straight walk leading from the principal 

 Palace entrance terminates in a stone pavilion, of similar style to 

 the house. In carrying out this part of the work, several trees, 

 chiefly' limes and chestnuts twenty-five to thirty feet high, were 

 moved in the local manner, namely, by digging all round them 

 in the early spring, and leaving such a ball that most of the 

 fibrous root was preserved untouched. On this ball water is poured 

 till the mass becomes frozen. Then the tree and its heavy ball 

 is dragged to the spot it is to occupy. Some of the trees moved 

 a little later by the ordinary English method of digging round 

 and covering the ball with matting, preserving all exposed fibrous 

 roots, and then transporting the tree on a table sliding on planks, 

 gave a better result. By the first method the trees had to be 

 much reduced in size. 



On the northern side the area is very restricted, and, as many 

 of the principal guest-rooms look out in that direction, the ground 

 was treated with flowing lines of walks, and with plantations. The 

 surface was undulated, and treated so as to create an appearance 

 of space. Raised mounds were formed to receive the flowering 

 trees and shrubs, and for concealing the boundary. On the 

 south side of the house, where the space to the boundary is also 

 very confined, a formal sunk garden was made, and the beds 

 filled with dwarf conijerce. Beyond this, marble statues alternating 

 with pyramidal golden yews were placed on the flat at foot of 

 a grassy slope the top of which was planted. Thus the adjacent 

 buildings are completely blocked out. 



On this southern side the problems were : (a) to provide a 



