184 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



plants of beauty and delight. At the centre of this Gar- 

 den may be planted a fountain, or in defect of water a 

 banqueting house or house of pleasure. 



" A rude draught of such a form is here presented to 

 your view, the inner parts of the grass plots planted 

 with fine trees, and the quadrants within the lesser circle 

 planted with a variety of fruit trees, and the principal 

 walks, round and straight, bordered with flowers and 

 delightful shrubs and plants. 



" Encompassed with a palisade in the centre of your 

 garden is a fountain of spring water always flowing, 

 serving not only to refresh the spirits of such that de- 

 light in the sight of it, but is necessary in dry and hot 

 seasons to preserve your choicest plants from injury." 



A rectangular garden, however, was considered de- 

 cidedly preferable. " The square is the most perfect 

 and pleasant form that you can lay your garden into 

 where your ground will afford it ; every walk that is in it 

 being straight and every plant and tree standing in a 

 direct line, represents it to your eye very pleasing. The 

 delight you take in walking in it being much the more 

 as you are less careful : for when you walk in a round 

 circle you are more subject to trespass on the borders 

 without continual thought and observation of the 

 ground. 



"You may divide your square into three parts by 

 palisades, the long way beginning at your house, the 



