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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



of which are pecuHarly beautiful, should grow on the surface 

 or near the edges of water. The numerous class of rock- 

 plants should have beds of rugged stone provided, without 

 the affectation of such stones being the natural production of 

 the soil ; but, above all, there should be poles or hoops for 

 those kind of creeping plants which spontaneously form 

 themselves into graceful festoons when encouraged and 

 supported by art." ^ Such was Repton's idea of a flower- 

 garden, but that was to form but a small portion of the 

 desi-'^ and its ve^^- existence seemed to him to require an 



WOODFORD. NO. I. FKOM A DRAWIxVG BV H. REPTON. 



apology. He boasts that he had " frequently been the means 

 of restoring acres of useless garden to the deer or sheep, 

 to which they more properly belong," yet he sometimes 

 designed a small formal garden for flowers. The " Dutch 

 garden " at Hewell Grange was made according to his 

 suggestions. t It is a semicircle, surrounded by a cut 



* Repton, Obs. on Landscape Gardening, 1S03. 



I MS. "Red Book " of Rcpton, belonging to Lord Windsor. 



