Garden 



From the middle of the parterre is a descent 

 by many steps flying on each side of a grotto 

 that lies between them (covered with lead, and 

 flat) into the lower garden, which is all fruit- 

 trees, ranged about the several quarters of a 

 wilderness which is very shady ; the walks here 

 are all green, the grotto embellished with fig- 

 ures of shell-rock-work, fountains, and water- 

 works. If the hill had not ended with the lower 

 garden, and the walls were not bounded by a 

 common way that goes through the park, they 

 .might have added a third quarter of all greens ; 

 but this want is supplied by a garden on the 

 other side of the house, which is all of that sort, 

 very wild, shady, and adorned with rough rock- 

 work and fountains. 



This was Moor Park, when I was acquainted 

 with it, and the sweetest place, I think, that I 

 have seen in my life, either before or since, at 

 home or abroad ; what it is now I can give little 

 account, having passed through several hands 

 that have made great changes in gardens as 

 well as houses ; but the remembrance of what 

 it was is too pleasant ever to forget, and there- 

 fore I do not believe to have mistaken the fig- 

 ure of it, which may serve for a pattern to the 

 best gardens of our manner, and that are most 

 proper for our country and climate. 



What I have said, of the best forms of gar- 



