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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



The enclos- 

 ure. 



principal walk is bordered with flowers, each principal 

 corner with flower pots and the middle of the quarter- 

 square with statues. The farther end fenced with a 

 palisade that the prospect of the adjacent orchard may 

 not be lost where now the statues stand, if water be to 

 be obtained, fountains would be placed with more 

 delight." 



After the shape of the garden had been determined, 

 the method of enclosure was taken into consideration : 



"When you have discovered 

 the best Land and pleased 

 yourself with the compleatest 

 Form you can imagine for 

 your garden ; yet without a 

 good Fence to preserve it 

 from severall evils that usually 

 annoy it your labour is but 

 lost." This protection might 

 be afforded by hedges, wooden 



palings, wooden or iron palisades, or walls of earth, 

 brick, or stone. 



Brick waiis. Brick walls were considered best. Usually they were 

 strengthened at regular intervals by pilasters, and coped 

 with bricks set on edge and sometimes slightly pro- 

 jecting. The dark purplish red of the seventeenth- 

 century brick was often a beautiful colour, and a most 

 becoming background to the peach and plum trees 



