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HYLAND In the immediate precincts of the house Brown removed patterned walks and terraces, supplanting them with sweeping, undulating lawns and a ha-ha. North of Syon House, orchards and vegetable gardens were relocated to make way for Brown's remarkable 'Syon Pleasure Ground,' embellished with "every foreign shrub, plant and flower which may be adopted by the soil of this climate," and "the choicest trees and plants from all quarters of the globe." Presiding over this exotic array he had erected a statue of the goddess Flora on a 55 foot Doric column. The 'productive' gardens, now oriented to the south, accommodated new crops: stove houses were built for the cultivation of pineapples, a hot wall built for the growing of vines, and in one of these buildings was nurtured the first tea plant to grow in Europe in 1773.

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