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walk different from any other in the garden ; and 2d, a walk sheltered from 
the winter southerly gales, and ornamented by the bloom of the laurus- 
tinus at that season. It is, therefore, so slightly curved as merely to 
avoid a straight line ; and permits an extent of length not found in any 
other part to be seen on descending the elevation at the east end, or on 
emerging from wood at the west end, where, when the improvements 
connected with it are finished, it will enter a dense plantation, the walk 
going round at the back of the building in that corner. The fence would 
have been entirely excluded from either near or distant view, and the 
eye carried so as not to catch a view of the grounds of the field nearer 
than one hundred yards or more at the least, if the laurustinuses had not 
suffered so severely in 1837-38 ; but these will, by next year, and by 
trees already planted along the border, and others to be planted irregu- 
larly, at intervals, in the field near the fence, in a great measure, Mr. 
[Fig. 18. Garden Front of Cheshunt Cottage.] 
Harrison thinks, obviate the objection made, or, at least, lessen the force 
of it, as future appearances will, he thinks, prove. — -W. H.” 
The trees and shrubs on the lawn are almost all disposed in the garden- 
esque manner ; that is, so that each individual plant may assume its 
natural shape and habit of growth. The masses are also chiefly planted 
in the same style ; and, as the trees and shrubs advance in growth, they 
are cut in, or thinned out ; so that each individual, if separated from the 
