Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 436
scheme, and this fashionwas followed in Elizabethan times, when the noblemenwere building mansions which almost vied with theroyal palaces in splendour. In all parts of the countrythese beautiful formal gardens were laid out, untilin the eighteenth century the debased craze forlandscape-gardening… … OLD GARDENS 223 the other was merely a neglecting of all rules of orderand proportion, and only succeeded in giving a parodyof nature. In the times of Walpole many beautifulold gardens perished to make way for atrocities inthe new picturesque style, and now they are fewand far between. Still they…
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