Excerpt from A Descriptive Account of the Mansion and Gardens of White-Knights: A Seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough IT has been much the fashion of late years, in this country, to commend no feature in that production of human industry, a Garden, which should not appear as if still remaining the mere spontaneous work of unassisted Nature. It is become a very general custom, indiscriminately to condemn, in the laying out of grounds, every marked trace of the hands of man; and above all, every. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.