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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Invegetate 

 ornaments. 



Sometimes they were two stories high, as at Severn 

 End, near Worcester. 



Greenhouses were an important adjunct to gardens 



which contained many 

 exotics too tender to 

 be left out of doors 

 in the winter. Here 

 also gillyflowers, carna- 

 tions, and orange trees 

 were forced into bloom. 

 The latter were nu- 

 merous, and sometimes 

 when the greenhouse was particularly devoted to their 

 use, it was called an orangery. At Wimbledon, as 

 early as the time of James I, there was an orangery 

 with walls of brick and the roof covered with blue slate. 

 Here were sheltered forty-two 

 orange, one lemon, one pome- 

 citron, and six pomegranate 

 trees. 



In the late seventeenth cen- 

 tury, garden statues, obelisks, 

 dials, and other " unvegetative " 

 ornaments seemed to take the 

 place of flowers. The best position for a statue was 

 supposed to be in the midst of a fountain or at the ter- 

 mination of a shady walk, rather than on the naked 



