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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Proceeding onward over this spacious park, we passed the keeper’s 
lodge, to which are attached numerous buildings and feeding-yards 
for deer. Here is also a large and well-constructed pheasantry, and 
other houses for poultry, kept and bred both for ornament and use; 
the roosting apartments for tropical birds being heated by fire-flues in 
winter. 
The regular herd of deer is usually kept up to about twelve hundred 
head; venison is, therefore, a plentiful and almost constant treat at his 
Lordship’s table, as well as at those of all his friends. The manage¬ 
ment of a herd of deer requires much attention on the part of the 
keeper and his assistants;—it is a branch of rural economy which is 
only known among the fraternity. Very meagre accounts only have 
hitherto been published concerning the management of this kind c 
stock. 
When war and hunting were the principal occupations of the san¬ 
guinary kings and rude barons of the kingdom, whole uninhabited 
tracts of the country were set apart and appropriated to the chase; but 
as agriculture was extended, fencing became necessary for the protec¬ 
tion of the crops; and as the sustenance of the whole community soon 
became dependent on the farmer’s products, laws were enacted which 
gave the tenants a power to protect their crops from the trespassing 
game of even their landlords. To preserve the game, many of the 
more opulent barons resolved, lest their game should stray away to the 
haunts of the freebooters, to enclose their chaces with a high paling or 
wall; and hence the origin of parks. Erecting such extensive and 
costly fences in those days, was much more easily accomplished than 
such things could be at the present time. The numerous tenantry 
and retainers, all bound to do “ suit and service” to the lord, were at 
the beck and call of the chief, and their united labours soon com¬ 
pleted such works. These times and circumstances are fast passing 
away: many ancient parks are now corn-fields, and those which 
remain are kept up rather as an appendage of state and affluent an¬ 
cestry, than for any other pleasure or profit they yield the possessor. 
The one which we have been surveying, and which has called forth the 
above remarks, is certainly one of long standing, and has certainly an 
air of graceful dignity, which is everywhere very impressive. 
As usual, there is a large farming and dairying establishment, called 
u the Grange,” belonging to-Court, for the supply of the house¬ 
hold, stud, &c.; and the whole appears to be a perfect type of an 
ancient baronial residence. 
Returning by the house, we visited, at the bottom of the court of 
offices, the riding-house and tennis-court, both lofty and noble build- 
