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In the 1980s John Nash's never-executed plans for the garden setting of the Brighton Pavilion, illustrated in Nash's volume Views of the Royal Pavilion ( 1826 ), were finally carried out, in connection with the extensive restorations of the Pavilion itself.

Its " fairly open landscape of soft lawns dotted with trees and set with lightly-wooded, sinuous shrubberies " are best illustrated in Augustus Charles Pugin's watercolor view c. 1822 of the west front of the Pavilion, reproduced in Nash's publication.

The winding perimeter walk circling the lawn among the shrubs and trees, enriched with island beds of herbaceous perennials, began to be laid out in 1814, with a flush of activity 1817-21.

Two books of commentaries proved indispensable for the replanting scheme.

One was Henry Phillips, who wrote in 1823