126 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



covers the chains suspended between them over the 

 beds. These numerous rose garlands give finishing 

 touches to the unusually festive appearance of the 

 garden. In the herbaceous border next the outer 

 hedge, and running like it around three sides of the 

 enclosure, are growing some sixty or seventy different 

 kinds of plants. Among them ..are monkshood, asters 

 of many sorts, canterbury bells, coreopsis, helianthus, 

 helenium, pyrethrum, phlox, etc. 



The The only purely architectural feature is the orangery, 



a very good example of a seventeenth-century conser- 

 vatory, intended rather for displaying plants when they 

 have reached perfection, than for rearing and fostering 

 them as in a modern greenhouse. It serves also as a 

 meeting-place for games and conversation, like a casino. 

 The style of architecture resembles that of the house, 

 but it was built at a later period. 



The In the centre of the garden is its sole piece of 



sculpture, a marble fountain, with a fluted cup around 

 which three children hand in hand are dancing in a 

 basin of water. This is, of course, more in the style 

 of the late Renaissance than in that of the early Tudor 

 period. A jet of water spouts from the bottom of the 

 cup and overflows into the basin below. Such an 

 arrangement is suggested by Worlidge, who says, " In 

 the centre of your garden is a fountain of spring water 

 always flowing, serving not only to refresh the spirits 



