ITALIAN VILLA GARDENS 



241 



TREES AND A 5EAT 1 WILTON' 



in the first half of the seventeenth century. In 1640 

 there was published a book which contained illustra- 

 tions of Wilton and the following description of its 

 plan : " The Garden within the enclosure of the New 

 Wall is a Thousand foote 

 long and about Foure 

 hundred in breadth di- 

 vided in its length into 

 three very long Squares 

 or Paralellograms ; the 

 first of which divisions 

 next the building hath 

 ffoure Platts embroydered; in the midst of which are 

 ffoure ffountaynes with Statues of marble in theire 

 midle, and on the sides of those Platts are the Platts 

 of fHowers, and beyond them is the little Terrass rased 

 for the more advantage of beholding 

 those Platts ; this for the first division. 

 In the second are two Groves or woods 

 cut with diverse walkes and through those 

 Groves passeth the river Nader having 

 a breadth in this place 44 foote upon 

 which is built the bridge of the breadth 

 of the greate walk, in the midst of the 



VASE: WILTON 



aforesayd groves are two great Statues of white marble 

 of eight ffoote heigth, the one of Bacchus and the other 

 Flora, and on the sides ranging with the Platts of ffiowers 



