60 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



modern days, and which no well-intentioned copy 

 ever achieves. So subtle and delicate is it that 

 it only lingers in the Gardens that he not merely 

 designed but whose progress was his personal 

 care. 



How strongly the spirit of the man (who, Horace 

 Walpole says, " really was the neighbour of the 

 Gospel, for there was no man that might not have 

 been the better for him ") dwells in his Gardens 

 can best be realised by those who have paced the 

 Terraces at Albury Park, belonging to the Duke of 

 Northumberland, one of the many English Gardens 

 which owes its chief beauties to Evelyn's genius. 

 This Albury Park is often mentioned in the Diary ; 

 the first allusion to it being in 1648, when Evelyn 

 went to visit the Countess of Arundel ; Albury 

 Place (as it was then called) having been purchased 

 from the Duncombes by the Earl of Arundel and 

 becoming for some years the residence of the 

 Dukes of Norfolk. 



Again, in 1655, Evelyn writes: "I went to 

 Alburie to visit Mr. Howard, who had begun to 

 build and alter the Gardens much." Then on 

 June 19, 1662: "I went to Alburie to visit Mr. 

 Henry Howard soon after he had procured the 

 Dukedom to be restored. We hunted and killed a 

 buck in the Park, Mr. Howard inviting most of the 

 gentlemen of the country near him." But it is not 

 till 1667 that he mentions the part he played in 



