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house, and statuary. The gardens had their terraces. 

 trelHs-walks, and bowHng-greens, the beds being laid 

 out in geometrical lines, and the hedges formed of 

 yews, hollies, and limes, clipped and shaped into 

 cones, pyramids, and other devices. Among the 

 delights of Nonsuch was a wilderness of ten acres 

 of extent. Of Hampton Court, he says : "We saw 

 rosemary so planted and nailed to the walls as to 

 cover them entirely, which is a method exceeding 

 common in England." 



No book on English gardens can afford to dis- 

 pense with Temple's description of the garden of 

 Moor Park, which is given with considerable relish, 

 as though it satisfied the ideal of the writer. 



" The perfectest figure of a Garden I ever saw, either at Home or 

 Abroad." — ^"It Hes on the side of a Hill (upon which the House stands), 

 but not very steep. The length of the House, where the best Rooms 

 and of most Use or Pleasure are, lies upon the Breadth of the Garden, 

 the Great Parlour opens into the Middle of a Terras Gravel- Walk that 

 lies even with it, and which may be, as I remember, about 300 Paces 

 long, and broad in Proportion, the Border set with Standard Laurels, 

 and at large Distances, Avhich have the beauty of Orange-Trees, out 

 of Flower and Fruit : From this Walk are Three Descents by many 

 Stone Steps, in the Middle and at each End, into a very large Parterre. 

 This is divided into Quarters by Gravel-Walks, and adorned with Two 

 Fountains and Eight Statues in the several Quarters ; at the End of 

 the Terras-Walk are Two Summer-Houses, and the Sides of the Par- 

 terre are ranged with two large Cloisters, open to the Garden, upon 

 Arches of Stone, and ending" with two other Summer-Houses even 

 with the Cloisters, which are paved with Stone, and designed for 

 Walks of Shade, there are none other in the whole Parterre. Over 

 these two Cloisters are two Terrasses covered with Lead and fenced 

 with Balusters ; and the Passage into these Airy Walks, is out of the 

 two Summer-Houses, at the End of the first Terras-Walk. The 

 Cloister facing the South is covered with Vines, and would have been 

 proper for an Orange-House, and the other for Myrtles, or other more 

 common Greens ; and had, I doubt not, been cast for that Purpose, if 

 this Piece of Gardeninjj had been then in as much \'ogue as it is now. 



