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Garden Calls : — 



the greatest praise that we can bestow on which is to say, that it will 

 dehght such men as Sir Uvedale Price and Gilbert Laing Meason. The 

 house, with the conservatory and sculpture galleries on one hand, and the 

 dairy, laundry, &c. on the other, forms a group so rich in classic forms and 

 combinations, that no one can duly appreciate its beauties, whose mind is 

 not thoroughly imbued with Italy and the fine arts. It is, in short, an 



example of what the Germans call the ecstatic in architecture. Thei'e 

 is not one English architect who would of his own accord have de- 

 signed such a house ; nor, if he had designed it, could he have found more 

 country gentlemen by whom it would have been understood or carried into 

 execution, than the Gard. Mag. would find readers if it were published in 

 Greek. Accordingly, as we are informed in the account of Deepdene pub- 

 lished in Neal's Vieius of English Country Seats, " the house was altered 

 under Mr. Hope's direction, and from his own designs, in which the more 

 recent discoveries in Grecian and Roman antiquities make a prominent 

 feature, by P. Atkinson, Esq." 



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The property, we are informed in the same work, " consists of above 

 400 ac. of pleasure ground, so judiciously disposed, that a walk admitting a 

 pleasing transition of view, of upwards of 12ni. may be undertaken without 

 retracing one step. The surface partakes of the greatest irregularity, and 



