Cheshunt Cottage. 



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Garden Front of Cheshunt Cottage. 



place, however small, there ought to be some part left which the 

 visitor has not seen, and which may leave the impression on his 

 mind, that, however much he has been shown, he has not 

 seen every thing. We make these observations with great de- 

 ference to Mr. Harrison, who has paid much attention to the 

 subject of landscape-gardening, and shown much practical taste 

 and good sense both in that art and in architecture. 



It is, however, right to state that Mr. Harrison accords with 

 our general view of the subject, but " defends the walk in ques- 

 tion as an exception founded on his objects in making it; which 

 were, 1st, to have a walk different from any other in the garden, 

 and, 2d, a walk sheltered from the winter southerly gales, and 

 ornamented by the bloom of the laurustinus at that season. It 

 is, therefore, so slightly curved as merely to avoid a straight line; 

 and permits an extent of length not found in any other part 

 to be seen on descending the elevation at the east end, or on 

 emerging from wood at the west end, where, when the improve- 

 ments connected with it are finished, it will enter a dense plant- 

 ation, the walk going round at the back of the building in that 

 corner. The fence would have been entirely excluded from 

 either near or distant view, and the eye carried so as not to catch 

 a view of the grounds of the field nearer than onehundred yards 

 or more at the least, if the laurustinuses had not suffered so 

 severely in 1837-38 ; but these will, by next year, and by trees 

 already planted along the border, and others to be planted irre- 

 gularly, at intervals, in the field near the fence, in a great mea- 

 snre, Mr. Harrison thinks, obviate the objection made, or, at 



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