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By the avenues and symmetrical plan- 

 tations of the last two centuries, the arti- 

 ficial garden was extended too far from 

 the mansion; hut in the modern garden- 

 ing, the natural lawn is hrought too near. 



As there are few Palaces in England Example 



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that can vie in magnificence with that of wobum. 

 Wohurn, it may furnish an example of 

 greatness in variety and character in its 

 garden scenery, without making its di- 

 mensions the standard of its greatness. 

 The mansion is connected with its ap- 

 pendages, such as the Stables, Riding- 

 house, Tennis-court, Orangerie, Chinese- 

 pavilion, Game-larder, &c. &c. by a cor- 

 ridor or covered passage of considerable 

 leno'th, which is enriched with flowers 

 and creeping plants. This passage is pro- 

 posed to be extended to the hot-houses in 

 the forcing garden, which is to form a 

 centre, for a series of different gardens, 

 under the following heads. 



temporary division of a lawn, or a light open fence that 

 divides tlie garden from the park, can only offend the 

 fastidious critic, who objects to all fences, without 

 knowing or assigning any reason. 



