200 Landscape Gardening 



a valley on all sides. Unhappily the estate had been sadly 

 denuded of trees by former owners and a good deal of plant- 

 ing has therefore become requisite. The position, however, 

 commands an extensive variety of wooded undulations, both 

 in the middle ground and the distance, and the great desider- 

 atum was therefore to create within and in the neighborhood 

 of the pleasure gardens a suitable and sufficient foreground. 



The engraving (fig. 55) will show pretty clearly the way in 

 which this has been accomplished. The house is approached 

 from the northeast by a constantly ascending drive of about 

 half a mile in length, which, after crossing the railway by a 

 characteristic bridge, winds up a natural hollow with the 

 undulating slopes of the park on either side, till it passes 

 over a sunk public footpath by another appropriate bridge 

 (30) and enters what I have termed the home pasture (29), 

 traversing which, it soon after reaches the enclosed pleasure 

 grounds and thus arrives at the house. A branch to the 

 west first separates from it and skirts the home pasture on its 

 way to the farm buildings. There is a subordinate drive 

 from the opposite direction (24) which conducts to the 

 house by way of the farm road and which is chiefly used for 

 farming purposes. 



The home pasture consists of an area of about twenty 

 acres and is detached or fenced off from the rest of the place, 

 partly for grazing purposes but mainly because it is bounded 

 to the north and east by a public footpath and has arable land 

 beyond it to the southeast and the southwest. The foot- 

 path which comes from a northwesterly direction formerly 

 crossed the middle of what is now the home pasture in a Hne 

 which would be nearly due south. There being two branches 

 to the path, howev'er, it was easy to divert it into the line 32; 

 and by sinking it five feet and putting a wall (31) on the 

 side next the home pasture a capital sunk fence has been 



