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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



English 

 translations 

 of French 

 books. 



CAT E-WAY : 



GARDEN & : 



published in 1709, in the third volume of the " Vi- 

 truvius Britannicus," issued by Campbell in 1725, in 



" Les Delices de la Grande 



Bretagne," and in Bade- 

 slades "Views." All con- 

 tain numerous bird's-eye 

 views of elaborate schemes, 

 showing that almost every 

 great house at this period 

 was surrounded by magnifi- 

 cent gardens extending into 

 the park with long avenues of trees. Among the finest 

 were those at Badminton, Brome Hall, Cassiobury, 

 Boughton, Hinchinbrooke Wollaton, and Longleat. 



The works of contemporaneous French writers on 

 gardens were well known in England during the seven- 

 teenth and eighteenth centuries, and are frequently 

 quoted by English authors. Among others the writings 

 of Sieur Legendre and of La Quintinie were popu- 

 larly translated, the latter first by Evelyn in 1658, 

 under the name of the " Compleat Gardner," and again 

 by London and Wise in 1699. " The Retired Gard- 

 ner," from the French of Louis Liger, and the " Soli- 

 tary or Carthusian Gardener," from the French of 

 Fran9ois Le Gentil, were translations by London and 

 Wise. 



The best of these, or in fact of any similar books 



