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Abstract
According to Francis Bacon a garden ‘is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks’ (Of Gardens, 1625). But how can we define a garden? Humphry Repton helps us when he writes in his Fragments on Landscape Gardening and Architecture of 1816: