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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts
(1816)

Report concerning Ealing Park,   pp. 80-82


Page 80

and including the house and yards, will he about two acres;
there will then remain about two acres and a half to the north,
whichis too much to be all pleasure-ground, and either the
whole may be fed with cattle as a lawn, or the part near the
house, including the gravel roads, may be fenced with a wire
or trellis fence, which will give neatness and comfort, without
Waste of land.
All rabbit beds and burrows within the fence shouldof
course be levelled and destroyed.
REPORT CONCERNING EALING PARK.
THIS is one of the few places which still retain the importance
of the last century in the blended scenery of Landscape and
Gardening: but the trees have outgrown their original inten-
t1ion. Brown (whose work this appears to have been) sur-
rounded the whole place by a narrow belt or skreen of planta-
tion; and in conformity doubtless with the wish of its proprietor,
he made a gravel-walk through the whole length of the same;
notwithstanding it every where runs parallel to a high road,
from which it is only separated by a pale: this was hid while
the plantation wasyoung, but now the trees are grown so naked
and open at bottom, that the proximity of the boundary is every
where felt: and since it would be impossible to remedy this


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