^yS THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



little wooden house for a domestic animal, painted, gilded, and 

 carved like a house in a puppet show." ^ ^ 



Hampton Court is the finest example in England of the Dutch 

 style, modified to some extent by Le Notre's original plans. 

 Beaumont, one of his pupils (who also laid out Levens, in 

 Westmoreland, for Colonel Graham) was employed here, and in- 

 Kip's view of Hampton Court we see the Gardens in all their 

 glory in Queen Anne's reign. 



The large semi-circle of limes was planted by Charles H., 

 enclosing gh acres. London (the pupil of Rose and partner of 

 Wise) had laid out the great semi-circular parterre under William 

 HI. The only fault Queen Anne found was too much box, which 

 she had rooted up, disliking the smell, as Defoe tells us, but it 

 was replanted later. Evelyn notes the cradlework of hornbeam 

 in ' Queen Mary's bower.' The style of London and Wise was 

 said to combine the best features of the French and Dutch styles — 

 their arbour ' an alcove arched over with trellis, excluding neither 

 wind nor rain ' existed till 1876. On the north side was the wilder- 

 ness, or maze — very rectangular, bounded by tall clipped hedges, 

 and called ' Troy Town.' Kent, under Queen Caroline (Consort 

 of George IL) simplified the scrolls and lacework of the 'Great 

 Parterre ' by substituting plain lawns. - 



Sir William Temple showed his love for his garden at Moor 

 Park near Farnham by ordering his heart to be buried there in a 

 silver box under a sun-dial. Besides wTiting a delightful work called 

 ' The Gardens of Epicurus ' in which he gives the palm of ' the 

 perfectest figure of a Garden ' to that of Moor Park in Hertfordshire, 

 on the slope of a hill with two terraces, one above the other, reached 

 by a fine flight of steps, he possessed another Garden at Sheen, in 

 one of which his Secretary Swift was taught by the King how to cut 

 asparagus. William was the first to replace stone walls previously 

 used in gardens by the splendid wrought-iron gates known as 

 ' C/air-vovees,' on account of the uninterrupted view they per- 

 mitted. Of these a fine example exists at Hampton Court. With 



^ ' Holland,' translated from the Italian by Caroline Tilton, 1880. 

 - See Ernest Law's ' History of Hampton Court.' 



