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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Sometimes the side toward the garden was left open, 

 as in the little wooden pavilion in the old gardens at 

 Whitehall. Others were substan- 

 tially built of stone, like the well- 

 known gazebos at Montacute. 

 Usually they were located in the 

 corners of the garden or in the 

 centre of the wall, at the end of 

 the main path. Two views of one at Packwood are 

 shown in the illustrations. An elaborate and fanciful 

 garden-house is at Chipping Camden, Gloucester- 

 shire, while the triangular lodge at Rushton is even 

 more quaintly designed. 



Mounts. Mounts continued to be raised in the centres or the 



corners of gardens. Mandelso mentions one at Theo- 

 balds, called the 

 Mount of Venus, 

 "which is placed in 

 the midst of a laby- 

 rinth, and is, upon 

 the whole, one of 

 the most beautiful 

 spots in the world." 

 In the garden at 

 Whitehall stood a 



"Parnassus Mount, on top of which was the Pegasus, 

 a golden horse with wings, and divers statues, one 



