202 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



which one felt of old on entering them. But what is the sensation 

 when one sees one above the other, spoiling by a templo-mania, 

 those which like the temple of friendship, would deserve our 

 commendation ? My Lord Temple has been too much led 

 astray by his name.^ I should prize the house of Lord Batita {sic) 

 near Bristol, but it has only the water which falls from the sky. 

 In vain are Chinese bridges often thrown across hollows, to make 

 believe there is something beneath. We are not long duped, 

 and what I saw at Lord Mansfield's, from the windows of his 

 house, only shews the sorry privations of several Gardens in 

 England. 



This would be lessened, if they had not the rage for separating 

 themselves from the Thames. They do not know how to profit 

 by it. The Duke of Marlborough makes up for it by the river 

 which he brought into his park, which increases in breadth and 

 swiftness and falls with much noise. I do not forgive Lord 

 Pembroke for making his flow like a canal. — Coup cPceil sur les 

 Jardins. 



MARQUIS l^Vas largely instrumental in introducing the ' English ' Style of Gardening 

 DE into France at his Park of Ermenonville, where he was assisted by J. M. Morel 



GIRARDIN ^c ^/^^ j^g^f of France ' and author Oj the ' Thiorie des Jardins ') and the Land- 

 ( 1 73 5- 1 ^05). scape -painter, G. F. Meyer. Rousseau^ his guest, died here and was first buried 

 on the ' He des Peupliers,^ before he was removed to the Pantheon {see the descrip- 

 tion by Arthur Young). Author of *■ De la Cotnposition des Paysages, oti des 

 Moyens dembellir la Nature pres des habitations, en y joignant t utile a V agri- 

 able. — Paris 1777, \to, translated by Daniel Malthus. 



MUCH has of late been said upon the subject of Gardens ; but 

 in the more common sense of the word, by which we under- 

 stand a piece of ground enclosed and laid out in straight lines, 

 or in some form or other, this by no means defines the species 

 of garden which I have undertaken to describe ; the first express 

 condition of which is that neither garden nor enclosure should 



^ Alluding to Lord Temple's Gardens at Stowe, which swarmed with 

 Temples to every conceivable Deity and Virtue. 



