256 Gbe Garden 



house, and the other for myrtles or other more 

 common greens, and had, I doubt not, been 

 cast for that purpose, if this piece of gardening 

 had been then in as much vogue as it is now. 



" From the middle of this parterre is a de- 

 scent 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 

 figures 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 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 acquaint- 

 ed with it, and the sweetest place I think that 

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

 at home or abroad." 



I will make no further remarks on this de- 

 scription. Any man might design and build 

 as sweet a garden, who had been born in and 

 never stirred out of Holborn. It was not pe- 

 culiar to Sir William Temple to think in that 



