328 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



partly surrounds the little Orchard in which the 

 Statue of Atlas stands in the centre of a pool 

 covered with Water Lilies and encircled by pink 

 Peonies. 



Of the Orange trees (put out on the path near 

 the Orangery, to enjoy the summer sunshine), the 

 finest boast a history, having come from the 

 Garden of Louis Philippe, who sold them to Lord 

 de Grey when the latter was building the new 

 Orangery. Where this now stands (near the old 

 Yew hedge) the earlier " Greenhouse " stood, built 

 in a grotesque fashion by the Duke of Kent from 

 Lord Burlington's design ; it was the last improve- 

 ment he carried out. Behind the Orangery, which 

 stands high, is the old Roman Bath House, on to 

 which Lord Hardwicke built a Roman temple, the 

 architect being Sir William Chambers. This 

 temple is now thickly covered with Ivy. 



The beautiful old Sundial marks the beginning 

 of the older Garden designed by Le Notre, that 

 great Gardener who must indeed have been an 

 exceptional man to have earned in the corrupt Court 

 of the Grand Monarch such an appreciation as 

 that written by that greatest of gossips, St. Simon. 

 "He was illustrious as having been the first 

 designer of those beautiful Gardens which adorn 

 France, and which indeed have so surpassed the 

 Gardens of Italy that most famous masters of that 

 country come here to admire and learn. . . . 



