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Works of It is not therefore in compliance with 



Art. . . 



the modern fashion for destroying avenues 



that I advised the removal of a few tall 

 trees near the house at Longleat, hut that 

 the character of greatness in a work of 

 art, like this Palace, should not be obli- 

 terated by the more powerful agency of 

 nature. Without going back to that taste 

 when this vast pile was surrounded by 

 lines of cut shrubs, and avenues of young 

 trees newly planted, much of its grandeur 

 might be restored, by judiciously remov- 

 ing the encroachments of vegetation: of 

 this kind are some of the tall shattered 

 elms remaining of the avenue near the 

 house, Avhich evidently tend to depress 

 its importance. 

 Appcnda-cs Whcn the artificial but magnificent 



to a Palace. ^ 



style of Geometric Gardening of Le Notre 

 was changed to the more natural style 

 of Landscape Gardening, it often hap- 

 pened that too little respect was paid to 

 the costly appendages of English palaces; 

 for although near the small houses of coun- 

 try gentlemen the barns and rick-yards, 

 and kitchen gardens, might give way to 



