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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

Lothair - Benjamin Disraeli A delightful picture of gardenesque planting can be found in Disraeli's high-flown romantic novel, Lothair; written in 1870, it describes a park planted in about 1800 with all the trees as specimens, no longer in the belts and clumps of Capability Brown.Page 66 The Pleasure Garden An Illustrated History of British Gardening