The modern lawn was invented in France and largely back to the taste of Louis XIV. By the early 18th century, the gentry in newly wealthy industrialists of England wanted their country houses to sit with endless lawns. Tom Banham went on a lawn reporting trip for 1843, our sister magazine. The fine lawns at Tussmore House are so perfectly flat and exacting we're sure that they induce a kind of vertigo. We've got two people cutting grass five days a week constantly. But from another angle you could say even less exact belongs a garden and gone man.