1 78 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



seats in them in each corner, with two Doore wayes 

 betweene each arbour, in all the fower sides and be- 

 tweene the two doore wayes in each side runs out a 

 Roman T: made of the same sort of hedginge and 

 of the same height." Two figures of wainscot well 

 carved were in the middle of two of the knots, and 

 there were covered alleys where -'one might walk two 

 myle in the walkes before he came to their ends." 

 Richmond The gardens at Richmond Court are less fully 



Court. 



described and contained nothing especially original. 

 Yew trees marked the centres of the box-bordered 

 flower-beds, the brick walls twelve feet high were 

 covered with fruit trees, and the water supply was 

 contained in a lead cistern. The great orchard was 

 symmetrically laid out with 223 trees. Here was a 

 handsome bird-cage for turtle doves. 



Thepreva- After the Restoration the seventeenth-century gar- 

 horticoiture. dens became more numerous. Worlidge, writing about 

 the year 1675, says: 



" Neither is there a noble or pleasant seat in Eng- 

 land but hath its gardens for pleasure and delight, 

 scarce an ingenious citizen that by his confinement 

 to a shop being denied the privilege of a real garden 

 but hath his boxes, pots, and other receptacles for 

 flowers, plants, etc. 



"So that we may without vanity conclude that a 

 garden of pleasant avenues, walks and fruits, flowers 



