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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 
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