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VIEW TO THE SOUTH.
This view is confined to the private front of the mansion,
and is appropriated to the family apartments.
To those who despise every thing they call old fashioned,
and who, supposing the perfection of Gardening to consist in
waving lines, are apt to shrink from every thing straight or for-
mal, this part of the plan for Beaudesert may give offence; but
the venerable dignity of this place is not to be measured by the
scale of a villa, or the spruce modern seat of sudden affluence,
be-belted and be-clumped in the. newest style'of the modern taste
of Landscape Gardening-No-rather let us go back to former
times, when the lofty terraces of theprivy garden gave protection
and seclusion to the noble persons, who with
" retired leisure,
" In trim gardens took their pleasure."
To this may be added; the modern luxury of hot-houses and
conservatories, with all the agrmens, which excite interest in
the cultivation of every species of flower that can delight the
eye by its colours, or gratify the smell by its perfumes: and it is
no small satisfaction to have discovered from old labourers on
the premises, that in the line of the terrace, and other parts of
this artificial and architectural Garden, we are restoring the
place to what thty remember it in the beginning of the last
century.