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at right angles, having at their ends small water basins to which 

 the overflow from the hothouse tanks has been conducted. The 

 walks forming the principal squares of the kitchen garden have 

 pyramidal fruit - trees planted on their inner sides ; the walls are 

 planted with suitable trained trees. From the before-mentioned 

 covered seat a walk is prolonged outside the pleasure gardens across 

 the park, and, dividing, one branch turns northward, to give a view 

 of the country and river not obtainable elsewhere, and eventually 

 joins the drive, whilst the other is continued to the river-side 

 walk. Only small peeps of the river were obtainable from the 

 mansion, so in order to bring this water view into the picture, the 

 river has been widened in places, and the level raised where this 

 could be readily done and could be most visible from the house 

 and grounds. A walk has been made by the river-side, which, 

 starting from the eastern end of the pleasure gardens, crosses the 

 park and then skirts the water's edge. In this secluded part, which 

 has been fenced in, places have been reserved for a collection 

 of bog plants, for a Rhododendron garden, for a bulb garden, and 

 for a collection of willows, etc. The walk, after crossing a bend of 

 the river by two rustic bridges, eventually joins the route already 

 referred to coming from the west end of the pleasure gardens. 



In the grounds, lying to the south of the river, and facing the 

 mansion, many trees in hedgerows running at right angles to 

 the eye had to be removed, in order to break up these lines 

 and also to open out views. Of those trees only a few could be 

 transplanted. Groups of planting have been introduced for general 

 effect, to lead the eye in the desired directions, and to give 

 distance by affording so many objects to count just outside the 

 line of sight ; to give variety in colour, to give masses of wood, 

 in order to relieve the monotony of the grass land, to provide 

 cover, and to shut out some adjacent land on which, possibly t 



