HISTORICAL NOTICES. 



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over the gateways—'- Tranquil and Content," " My desire 

 is satisfied" — (genegentheiel is volden) — "Friendship and 

 sociability," and numerous others of a similar import. 



As modern landscape gardening owes its existence al- 

 most entirely to the English, we must take a rapid glance 

 at the early condition of the art in Great Britain, and its 

 subsequent development to the present time. 



It would appear to be an undeniable fact in the history 

 of ornamental gardening that, from the time of William the 

 Conqueror down to the latter part of the reign of Queen 

 Anne, and the beginning of that of George I., nothing was 

 considered garden scenery except it was in the formal and 

 geometric style. 



The royal gardens of Henry VIII., at Nonsuch Palace, 

 laid out in the beginning of the sixteenth century, may per- 

 haps be taken as a type of the highest ideal of a garden at 

 that period. Heutzner, in speaking of this place, after 

 describing it as abounding in every species of costly mag- 

 nificence, adds, — 



" This, which no equal has in art or fame, 

 Britons deservedly do Nonsuch name." 



Loudon remarks that '-'these gardens are stated, in a 

 survey taken in the year 1650, above a century after 

 Henry's death, to have been cut and divided into several 

 alleys, compartments, and rounds, set about with thorn 

 hedges. On the north side was a kitchen garden, very 

 commodious, and surrounded with a wall fourteen feet high. 

 On the west was a wilderness severed from the little park 

 by a hedge, the whole containing ten acres. In the privy 

 gardens were fountains and basins of marble, one of which 

 s ' set round with six lilac trees, which trees bear no fruit, 



