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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Bowling- 

 greens. 



Travellers' 

 descriptions. 



stone. The illustrations from Worlidge show a variety 

 of different designs. Celia Fiennes mentions a clock 

 " which by water-work is moved and strikes the hours 

 and chimes the quarters, and when they please play 

 lilibolaro on the chimes." 



Bowling had now become the favourite outdoor game 

 to the exclusion of tennis. At Norton Conyers in 



Yorkshire there is a his- 

 toric bowling-green where 

 Charles I, while waiting for 

 supplies, is said to have 

 played for five consecu- 

 tive days. At Levens are 

 some old seventeenth-cen- 

 tury bowls bearing the Bel- 

 lingham crests. A garden 

 with any pretensions was 

 always supplemented by a 

 bowling-green, usually shaded by trees and varying in 

 its proportions. 



The most celebrated gardens in England were visited 

 by two travellers, John Evelyn and Celia Fiennes, 

 toward the close of the seventeenth century. Each has 

 left descriptions of these gardens, which add much to 

 our existing store of information, and have been already 

 quoted in this chapter. 



Evelyn was particularly interested in gardens and 



