ii2 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



the " Gardener's Labyrinth." As to its main out- 

 lines it is not unlike the Pond Garden at Hampton 

 Court, which has already been described in this 

 chapter. A square piece of level ground is shown 

 surrounded by a wooden paling, and within it a second 

 enclosure fenced with latticework, strengthened at 

 intervals by wooden posts; also, an entrance through 

 a double door protected by a heavy-corniced doorway, 

 but not battlemented as it would have been, almost 

 invariably, at a somewhat earlier period. Opposite 

 to each other, in the middle of two edges of the 

 outer enclosure, are a well and an arched arbour, both 

 of good and simple designs familiar to us beside the 

 old farm-houses in New England. In the centre of the 

 inner enclosure a cluster of beds, intended for flowers, 

 is laid out in geometrical designs. Other beds, oblong 

 in shape and varying in width, form a series of borders 

 for less ornamental plants. The corners of the central 

 border are accented by circular beds. Between the 

 outer paling and the inner latticework is another space 

 filled with oblong beds, probably intended to contain 

 the pot-herbs, 

 intermix- The intermingling of ornamental with useful plants 



ture of the 



nsefui with continued to be common. As an innovation, Borde 

 mental?" recommended that there should be two divisions sepa- 

 rated by a broad-hedged alley. One of these sections 

 was to be devoted to pot-herbs, the other to "quarters 



