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lawn, less cheerful than a cottage on a naked common. This defect in 
modern gardening is to be attributed to the misapplication of the sunk 
fence, which gives freedom in appearance, but in reality confinement. 
Fortunately the sunk fence cannot be applied to the Gardens of the 
Pavilion; we cannot blend the surface of the grass with adjoining streets 
and parades ; we cannot give great ideal extent by concealing the actual 
boundary ; we cannot lay open the foreground of the scene to admit 
distant views of sea or land, while impeded by intervening houses ; and 
therefore both the character and situation of the Pavilion render these 
common rules of Landscape Gardening totally inapplicable. 
