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near Enfield, at Forty Hill, there is a handsome church, built and endowed 

 by Mr. Myers, opposite to his park, which is filled with large and hand- 

 some trees. Afterwards it passes the celebrated park of Theobalds, near 

 where formerly stood a royal palace, the favourite residence of James L, 

 and winds in the most agreeable and picturesque manner under the shade 

 of overhanging trees. Having made several turns, it leads to a lane with 

 a brook which runs parallel to the road, a foot-bridge across which forms 

 the entrance to Mr. Harrison's cottage, as exhibited in the view^^ 1. 



The ground occupied by Mr. Harrison's cottage and gardens is about 

 seven acres, exclusive of two adjoining grass fields. The grounds lie en- 

 tirely on one side of the house, as shown in the plan, fig. 13. in p. 438, 

 439. The surface of the whole is flat, and nothing is seen in the horizon 

 in any direction but distant trees. The beauties of the place, to a stranger 

 at his first glance, appear of the quiet and melancholy kind, as shown in 

 the figs, 2. 3. ; the one looking to the right from the drawing-room window 

 and the other to the left : but, upon a nearer examination by a person 

 conversant with the subjects of botany and gardening, and knowing in what 

 rural comfort consists, these views will be found to be full of intense inter- 

 est, and to afford many instructive hints to the possessors of suburban 

 villas or cottages. 



In building the house and laying out the grounds, Mr. Harrison was his 

 own architect and Landscape Gardener ; not only devising the general de- 

 sign, but furnishing working-drawings of all the details of the interior of 

 the cottage. His reason for fixing on the present situation for the house 

 was, the vicinity (the grounds joining) of a house and walk belonging to a 

 relation of his late wife. This circumstance is mentioned as accounting in 

 one so fond of a garden, for fixing on a spot which had neither tree nor 

 shrub in it when he first inhabited it. Mr. Harrison informs us, and we 

 record it for the use of amateurs commencing, or extending, or improving 

 gardens, that he commenced his operations about thirty years ago, by pur- 

 chasing, at a large nursery sale, large lots of evergreens, not 6 in. high, in 

 beds of one hundred each, such as laurels, Portugal laurels, laurustinuses» 

 bays, hollies, &c. ; with many lots of deciduous trees, in smaller numbers' 

 which he planted in a nursery on his own ground ; and at intervals, as he 

 from time to time extended his garden, he took out every second plant 

 which, with occasional particular trees and shrubs from nursery grounds, 

 constituted a continual supply for improvement and extension. This, with 



