LAXDSCAPE GARDENING. 



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Thuja hedge, and a liit;h brick wall across the straight side. 

 The beds within are edged with box, between which are 

 small gravel paths tiled in the middle, and a sundial in the 

 centre of the garden. He also designed the lawn and rock- 

 garden while an older French garden, approached by cut yew 

 hedges, he did not interfere with. Much as he dishked avenues 

 as being "utterly inconsistent with Natural scenery,"* he 

 occasionally respected " such marks of ancient dignity." At 

 Finedon, although he thought the view " encumbered " by the 

 vicarage and church, and said the garden wall, malt-house. 



WOODFORD. NO. 2. FROM THE SAME DRAWING BY H. REPTON, SHOWING THE 



SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS. 



pigeon-house, and even part of the village " must be removed," he 

 spared the avenue called the " Holly Walk." 



When asked to make suggestions for the improvement of 

 a place, Repton prepared what he called his " Red Book," 

 with plans and views of the garden as it was, and as he 

 proposed to make it. He published a collection of these 

 " Red Books," amplifying it with expositions of his own views 



* MS. "Red Book" b}- Repton, 1793, belonging to Miss iNIackworth 

 Dolben, Finedon, Northamptonshire. 



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