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A JIISTURY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



others are cut into shell and scroll-work, with sand alleys 

 between them, which are the finest parterre works esteemed 

 in England." 



In the Retired Gardener, translated from the F"rench of 

 Louis Liger, by London and Wise, no less than eleven 

 sorts of parterres are described, but all are merely varia- 

 tions of design in grass, beds or cut-work, and patterns 

 of scrolls and foliage or " embroidery, like we have on our 

 cloaths." The two following are examples of his descriptions : 

 No. VL " The Form of a Parterre partly cut-work and partly 



PARTERRE. FROM LONDON AND WISE. 

 (no. VII.) 



green Turf with Borders. These Parterres are esteem'd 

 according to their Design and their Symmetry. They look 

 .very well in great gardens as well as small, the verdure of 

 the grass, and the Enamel of the Flowers with which the 

 Compartments ought to be fill'd according to the different 

 seasons of the year, present a charming object to the sight. 

 These parterres may likewise be set off with such Pots as I 

 mentioned before [i.e. Dutch jars) or surrounded with Boxes 

 fill'd with Orange Trees or with other shrubs of like Nature." 

 \TL "The Form of a Parterre with cut-work of Grass and 



