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losses. Wolsey's garden at Hampton Court is now 

 effaced, for the design of the existing grounds dates 

 from William III. Nonsuch in Surrey, near Epsom 

 race-course, is a mere memory. In old days this 

 was a favourite resort of Queen Elizabeth ; the 

 garden was designed by her father, but the greater 

 part carried out by the last of the Fitzalans. Evelyn, 

 writing of Nonsuch, says: "There stand in the 

 garden two handsome stone pyramids and the 

 avenue planted with rows of fair elms, but the rest 

 of these goodly trees, both of this and of Worcester 

 adjoining, were felled by those destructive and 

 avaricious rebels in the late war." 



Theobalds, in Hertfordshire, had a noble garden ; 

 it was bought in 1564 by Cecil, and became the 

 favourite haunt of the Stuarts, but the house was 

 finally destroyed during the Commonwealth. 



My Lord FauconbergKs garden at Suit on Court 

 is gone too. As described by Gibson in 1691, it 

 had many charms. " The maze, or wilderness, 

 there is very pretty, being set all with greens, 

 with a cypress arbour in the middle," &c. 



Sir Henry Capell's garden at Kew, described by 

 the same writer, "has as curious greens, and is as 

 well kept as any about London. . . His orange 

 trees and other choice greens stand out in summer 

 in two walks about fourteen feet wide, enclosed with 

 a timber frame about seven feet high, and set with 

 silver firs hedge-wise. . . His terrace walk, bare 

 in the middle and grass on either side, with a hedge 

 of rue on one side next a low wall, and a row of 



