_Lord Bacon's Palace and Gardens._--Will any of your architectural or
landscape gardening readers inform me whether any attempts were ever made
by any of our English sovereigns or nobility, or by any of our rich men of
science and taste, to carry out, in practice, Lord Bacon's plans of _a
princely palace_, or _a prince-like garden_, as so graphically and so
beautifully described in his _Essays_, xlv. and xlvi., "Of Building" and
"Of Gardens"?
I cannot but think that if such an attempt was never made, the failure is
discreditable to us as a nation; and that this work ought yet to be
executed, as well for its own intrinsic beauty and excellence, as in honour
of the name and fame of its great proposer.