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He objected to ' trees rising in cones, globes and pyramids ' and 

 thought 'an orchard in flower looked infinitely more delightful 

 than all the little labyrinths of the most finished parterre.' 



I believe Addison's garden at Bilton in Warwickshire still wears 

 much the same aspect it bore in his own day. 



Stephen Switzer in his ' Ichnographia Rustica ' declares him- 

 self a partisan of Pope, and of the ' Rural ' style which slowly 

 superseded the Grand Manner of Le Notre ; although Batty 

 Langley tried to show the world how the Grand and Rural 

 manners might lie down together in perfect amity. 



Johnson (the Historian of Gardens) considers this book one of 

 the Classics of Gardening. Switzer gives a discursive History of the 

 Art up to his own day, lays down the principle that Design should 

 be founded on variety, and is of opinion that a little regularity 

 should be allowed near the main building and then a gradual 

 procession from finished Art to Wild Nature. 



Of the numerous bird's eye views of Gardens to be found in 

 Kip's ' Britannia lUustrata ' or Beeverel's ' Delices de la Grande 

 Bretagne,' such as Longleat, Badminton and Chatsworth, 

 Blomfield and Inigo Thomas's 'Formal Garden' has treated so 

 fully, that there is no necessity to go again over the same ground. 



The Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge ^ often preserved the 

 integrity of their old-fashioned Gardens through various changes 

 of style around them — and in Loggan's view of Wadham College 

 in 1675 ^'^^y be seen the Mount, and the Palissades or Groves 

 looking in Horace Walpole's words, ' like Green Chests set upon 

 Poles.' A view is given here of the Gardens of Trinity College, 

 Oxford, on the left of which may be seen the peculiarly designed 

 grove or labyrinth. " Even so ardent a ' Landscapist ' as Humphry 

 Repton has declared that he should ' doubt the taste of any im- 

 prover who could despise the congruity, ability, order and sym- 

 metry of these Gardens of Trinity.' But we have lingered long 

 enough in the formal garden. 



1 See D. Loggan's ' Oxonia lUustrata,' 1675, ' Cantabrigia Illustrala,' Willis 

 and Clark's History of the University of Cambridge, and the various College 

 Histories. 



