Gardens and Grounds at Wilfo7-d Hall. 



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«, Wilford House. 



b. Flower-garden. 



c. Vinery adapted for pines, 45 ft. 



by 30 ft. 



d. Green-house. 



e. Part of the Park. 



f. Stable-yard. 



g. Forcing-frame ground. 

 h. Fruit-garden. 



i. Pond. 



Jc, River Trent. 



The obvious defects in the laying out of the grounds at 

 Wilford Hall, as far as can be judged from the plan, without 

 seeing the grounds, are, that the dug patches of the flower- 

 garden [b) are distributed over the surface too regularly, the 

 shapes inharmonious, and neither accommodated to the turns 

 of the walks, nor so fitted to their situations relatively to each 

 other, as not to admit of being removed, or changed in posi- 

 tion, without deranging the effect. The first fault occasions 

 what painters call a want of breadth, the other a want of 



