1338 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IIL, 
“le Chasteau de Richelieu 
en Poictou,” given in. Ma- 
rot’s Recueil des Plans, &c., 
des plusieurs de Chasteaua, « 
Grottes, &c., published in 
1661, of which our fig. 1218. 
is a copy, a very rich parterre B3y 
ef embroidery may be ob- =< 
served in the fore-ground 
large semi circular space ap- 
pears to be covered with the 
same description of orna- | 
ment. It may also be ob- 
served, that there is not a 
single tree or shrub shown in 
a natural state within several hundred feet of the house, on every side. The 
embroidered style of parterre is still occasionally to be met with adjoin- 
1218 
with a fountain in the centre; : 
and, in the back-ground, a 
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ing very old residences in France and Italy, and even in a few places in 
England; and, as affording variety, it is at least as worthy of revival as the 
architectural style of the age in which it most extensively prevailed. The 
best designs in this style are to be found in the edition of Boyceau’s Jardinage, 
&e., which was published in 1714, in folic. Topiary work, or the art of cut- 
ting the box and other trees into artificial forms, was carried to such an 
extent among the Romans, that both Pliny and Vitruvius use the word 
topiarius to express the art of the gardener ; a proof that, as far as ornament 
was concerned, the art of clipping was considered the highest accomplishment 
that could be possessed by a gardener, among the ancient Romans. This 
