Art Out-of-Doors 



mile in length, and in its centre stands a 

 charming seventeenth-century palace, with 

 one of its fronts looking out on a rectangu- 

 lar sheet of water, and the other on a flower- 

 beset lawn of similar extent and size, while 

 from pond and lawn to the entrances of the 

 park stretch wide straight roads, bordered 

 by paths on either side and planted with 

 regular rows of tall linden-trees and horse- 

 chestnuts. Similar roads and paths like- 

 wise cut through the centre of the park in 

 the opposite direction, and thus we have 

 a scheme which is fundamentally formal. 

 But the other portions of the ground are 

 treated in more naturalistic ways. Great 

 forest-like masses of trees and shrubs often 

 come up so close behind the avenue trees 

 that from the avenue we can hardly imag- 

 ine what lies beyond them. Winding paths 

 traverse these naturalistic plantations, and 

 now and then we find large open glades 

 where splendid oaks and elms stand in half- 

 rural solitude. As originally designed, more 

 than two hundred years ago, this park was 

 smaller and entirely formal ; but it has been 

 improved, not defaced, by the additions and 



i68 



