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secret way to retire by " ? In a sense, the garden's 

 technique illustrates its author's personality. To 

 change Montaigne's reply to the king who admired 

 his essays, Bacon might say, " I am my garden." 



Many references to old garden-craft might be 

 given culled from the writings of Sir Thomas More, 

 John Lyly, Gawen Douglas, John Gerarde, Sir 

 Philip Sidney, and others ; all of whom are quoted 

 in Mr Sieveking's charming volume, " The praise of 

 Gardens." But none will serve our purpose so well 

 as the notes of Heutzner, the German traveller, 

 who visited England in the i6th century, and Sir 

 William Temple's description of the garden of 

 Moor Park. According to Heutzner, the gardens 

 at Theobalds, Nonsuch, Whitehall, Hampton Court, 

 and Oxford were laid out with considerable taste and 

 extensively ornamented with architectural and other 

 devices. The Palace at Nonsuch is encompassed 

 with parks full of deer, with delicious gardens, 

 groves ornamented with trellis-work, cabinets of 

 verdure, and walks enclosed with trees. " In the 

 pleasure and artificial gardens are many columns and 

 pyramids of marble, two fountains that spout water 

 one round the other like a pyramid, upon which are 

 perched small birds that stream water out of their 

 bills. In the grove of Diana is a very agreeable 

 fountain, with Actaeon turned into a stag, as he was 

 sprinkled by the goddess and her nymphs, with 

 inscriptions." Theobalds, according to Heutzner's 

 account, has a "great variety of trees and plants," 

 labyrinths, fountains of white marble, a summer- 



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