i8o ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Pepyson the architect Hugh May about the gardens of this 



the new 



fashion. period, laid out in the height of the style, which evi- 

 dently met with their approval. 



" 22nd Lord's Day. Walked to Whitehall, where 

 saw nobody almost, but walked up and down with 

 Hugh May, who is a very ingenious man. Among 

 other things, discoursing of our present fashion of 

 gardens to make them plain that we have the best 

 walks of gravell in the world, France having none 

 nor Italy; and our green of our bowling allies is 

 better than any they have. So our business here 

 being ayre, this is the best way only with a little 

 mixture of statues or pots, which may be handsome, 

 and so filled with another pot of such or such a 

 flower or greene, as the season of the year will bear. 

 And then for the flowers, they are best seen in a 

 little plat by themselves; beside their borders spoil 

 the walks of another garden ; and then for fruit, the 

 best way is to have walls built circularly one within 

 another, to the south, on purpose for fruit, and leave 

 the walking Garden only for that use." 



Hea's Flowers began to be considered of less and less 



importance, and were planted in pots rather than 

 directly in the soil. This gave a somewhat cold and 

 forbidding aspect to the garden, which Rea protests 

 was rarely "found well furnished out of the hands 

 of an affectionate florist," and he goes on to explain : 





