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less deliberate, the relating of the garden to the building it surrounds 

 is exceedingly judicious and quite agreeable in its result. 

 As further examples of this association The Hall, Bradford-on-Avon 

 (PLATES XXIII and XXIV), Brympton House (PLATES XXXI and 

 XXXII), and Orchardleigh Park (PLATES XCVIII to CI), are espe- 

 cially notable. The first two illustrate admirably the value of the 

 stately and well-proportioned terrace with fine flights of steps as a 

 connecting link between the house and the grounds, and prove very 

 decisively how mistaken were the earlier landscape gardeners when 

 they neglected the opportunity of securing such a feature as a 

 starting-point for their garden design. Orchardleigh Park shows a 

 different treatment of the terrace, but one which lacks neither pic- 

 turesqueness nor beauty of effect, and one, moreover, which must be 

 commended for its elegant arrangement of lines. At Ammerdown 

 Park (PLATES IV to VIII) the architectural effect of the immediate 

 surrounding of the house is more than ordinarily persuasive ; a very 

 correct judgment in the spacing of the different parts of the approach 

 can be recognised, and the formality of the design, carefully con- 

 trived as it is, does not in any way exceed legitimate bounds. This , 

 formality does not, however, extend to the garden, in which nature 

 has been allowed to riot pleasantly and to hide by a free growth of 

 foliage many of the terrace walls. A similar profusion can be seen 

 at Stratton Park (PLATES CXVI to CXVIII), where the dis- 

 tinguishing note is a kind of intentional wildness, a prearranged 

 confusion which is quite happily unconventional. 

 A touch of the same deliberate carelessness can be seen in the garden 

 at Hartham Park (PLATES LXVII and LXVIII) where the severe 

 lines of the architectural laying-out an excellent piece of modern 

 work have been softened by what seems at first sight to be the 

 accidental growth of vegetation in unexpected places. Whether this 

 device is entirely legitimate is a question for discussion by experts ; 

 it gives, perhaps, a hint of neglect which has produced effects not 

 really allowable in formal gardening. It would certainly be out of 

 place in such gardens as those at Ashridge Park (PLATES IX to 

 XIII), where the dominant note is strict precision ; and it would 

 spoil the trimness of such places as Moor Park (PLATES XCII and 

 XCIII) or Taplow Court (PLATES CXXI and CXXII), both of which 

 are interesting examples of laying-out in the strictly correct manner. 

 It seems more appropriate at Corsham Court (PLATES XLI to XLIII) 

 and at Paulton's Park (PLATES CII and CIII), where variations from 

 the exact design have apparently been contemplated and prepared for 

 in the original plan ; and it does not clash with the domestic charm 

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