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house, and may be united by grass terraces 

 in the Dutch style, with the gardenesque 

 -first, and that followed by the picturesque. 

 To mix, however, indiscriminately the Ita- 

 lian, tonsiie, gardenesque, and picturesque 

 styles, would distract attention, and be de- 

 structive of that first of all principles in cor- 

 rect composition — the unity of the whole. 



As modifications of the foregoing styles, 

 we may notice the following : Fig. 808 

 Fig. 803. 



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represents a Panopticon flower-garden, a 

 style seldom now met with. As will be 

 seen by our cut, it has the walks radiat- 

 ing from the house, cutting the lawn into 

 triangular pieces, on which flower-beds 

 are to be placed as well as basins of water. 

 Fig. 809 exhibits a specimen of the 



Fig. 809. 



Florentine style, 'having a surrounding- 

 gravel walk, while the beds are cut out on 

 the grass. It is placed on a raised grass 

 terrace, with an alcove at each side. The 

 spaces are divided into two equal parts by 

 a broad gravel walk, extending from the 

 flight of steps to the basin of water and 

 alcove in the semicircular projection at 

 the farthest end. The Florentine style of 

 architecture was introduced into England 

 about 1544, by John of Padua, 

 who was in that year appointed 

 to the office of deviser of his 

 majesty's buildings. It is pro- 

 bable that the once splendid 

 gardens at Longleat were laid 

 out in this style, and by this 

 artist, as he is known to have 

 built that fine mansion, said to 

 be the earliest specimen of the 

 Italian Florentine style in Eng- 

 land. This style prevailed only 

 for a short time, yet many gar- 

 dens were laid out in it during 

 the period of its existence in Eng- 

 land. 



Fig. 81 0 is a design in the Tudor 

 style, and is characterised by its quadran- 

 gular form, and by the presence of a foun- 



tain in the centre, which w T as deemed indis- 

 pensable, and associated also with the sur- 

 rounding buildings, as such gardens were, 

 for the most part, laid out either in the 



