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Book: An inquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening, 1806
Chapter: Part I. Historical Notices.

The Evergreen Drive at Woburn Abbey

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Woburn Evergreen Drive.-I must not here omit the full tribute of applause to that part of the drive at Woburn, in which evergreens alone prevail: it is a circumstance of grandeur, of variety, of novelty, and, I may add, of winter comfort, that I never saw adopted in any other place on so magnificent a scale. The contrast of passing from a wood of deciduous trees to a wood of evergreens, must be felt by the most heedless observer; and the same sort of pleasure, though in a weaker degree, would be felt in the course of a drive, if the trees of different kinds were collected in small groups or masses by themselves, instead of being blended indiscriminately.