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horiiboam in the garden is, for the perplexed tvrining of the 

 trees, very observable. There is a parterre which thoy call 

 Paradise, in which is a pretty banqiietting room, set over a 

 cellar." Of Ham House in Middlesex, the seat of the Duke 

 of Lauderdale, he observes, " the parterres, flower gardens, 

 orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, 

 fountains, aviaries, and all this on the bank of the sweetest 

 river in the world, must needs be admirable." He also des- 

 cribes many other seats all laid out m the same style.* 



Thus the style of Gardening continued to the reign of Wil- 

 liam and Mary (1G89 — 1702) when this mathematical order of 

 laying out grounds was in its zenith. It was now rendered 

 still more opposed to nature by the heavy additions of crowded 

 hedges of Box, Yew, &c. which however by rendering the 

 style still more ridiculous perhaps hastened the introduction of 

 the more natural taste which burst forth a few years after. 

 William, Daines Barrington informs us, brought a taste for 

 clipt Yews, and splended gates and jails of Iron into fashion. 

 Such were common in Holland and France. These latter fen- 

 ces were a great improvement, supplanting the stone Walls, 

 previously used as boundaries, and thus allowing a more unin- 

 terrupted view, received the name of Clair-voytfs They were 

 very much employed about Hampton Court, and the next in 

 extent were formed by Switzer at Leeswold in Flintshire, laid 

 out by that Gardener in Bridgeman's first style, a mixture of 

 the natural and formal, William and his royal Consort made 

 Hampton Court, their cheif residence. It was under their 

 direction that the Great Garden, the Privy Garden, the 

 Wilderness, and the Kitchen Garden were rapidly constructed. 

 An Alcove, and arched trellis were formed at the end of one of 

 the Alleys, and four urns placed before the principal parts of 

 the house, which are supposed by Daines Barrington to be the 



* Bray's Memoirs of Evelyn, v. i. p. 432, &c. Gibson's notes on Gar- 

 dens in the Archocologia, v. xii. 



