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DAWN OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING.
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of our way to see Hall Barn, Mr. Waller’s house—a London Box,
if I may so call a house of 7 windows every way. He was gone a
hunting, so we did not go into the house, which promised nothing
extraordinary, but we spent a full hour and half in viewing the
gardens, which you will think are fine, when I tell you they
put us in mind of those at Versailles. He has 80 acres in garden
HALL BARN.
and wood, but the last is so managed as justly to be counted
part of the former. From the parterre you have terraces and
gravelled walks that lead up to and quite thro’ the wood, in
which several lesser ones cross the principal one, of different
breadths, but all well gravelled and for the most part green
sodded on the sides. The wood consists of tall beech trees and
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of our way to see Hall Barn, Mr. Waller’s house—a London Box,
if I may so call a house of 7 windows every way. He was gone a
hunting, so we did not go into the house, which promised nothing
extraordinary, but we spent a full hour and half in viewing the
gardens, which you will think are fine, when I tell you they
put us in mind of those at Versailles. He has 80 acres in garden
HALL BARN.
and wood, but the last is so managed as justly to be counted
part of the former. From the parterre you have terraces and
gravelled walks that lead up to and quite thro’ the wood, in
which several lesser ones cross the principal one, of different
breadths, but all well gravelled and for the most part green
sodded on the sides. The wood consists of tall beech trees and
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