ON GARDENS 27 



than any of the others, but they must owe it to 

 some extraordinary dispositions of nature. . . . 

 Something of this I have seen in some places, 

 but heard more of it from others who have lived 

 among the Chinese." 



A little over fifty years later the Chinese 

 mode of planting was copied, both in England 

 and abroad. 



William and Mary, when they came to England, 

 were naturally in favour of Dutch ideas, and they 

 brought the Dutch style in Gardening into promi- 

 nence. They found small difficulty in introducing 

 alterations in Garden designs, Gardening having 

 become a fashionable hobby and every one vying 

 with one another in having the very last new 

 fashion carried out 



The Dutch style was not unlike the French, but 

 everything was on a smaller scale. Such trivial 

 things as glass balls, coloured sand, and painted 

 perspectives were introduced to give a stiff effect, 

 the two great characteristics being symmetry and 

 masses of ornament. 



One of the best examples of this style was the 

 Garden at Loo ; but Hampton Court was perhaps . 

 the finest in England. George London laid out 

 the great semicircular Parterre during the reign 

 of William and Mary. Later Queen Anne com- 

 plained there was too much Box as she disliked 

 the smell of it, and London lived to see it rooted 



