During great part of last century WEST WYCOMBE was deemed a garden of such finished beauty, that to those who formerly remembered the place, it will seem absurd to suggest any improvement. But time will equally extend its changing influence to the works of nature and to those of art, since the PLANTER has to contend with a power- "A hidden power! at once his friend and foe! Tis VEGETATION ! Gradual to his groves She gives their wished effects, and that displayed, O! that her power would pause; but, active still, She swells each stem, prolongs each vagrant bough, And darts, with unremitting vigour bold, From grace to wild luxuriance." MASON.
[West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire belonged to Sir J Dashwood King]
