French Gardening and Its Master 



let, the son of the first, is considered as the immediate prede- 

 cessor of Le Notre himseU" ; to him is ascribed the invention 

 of fioral embroideries. He is largely responsible for the gar- 

 den schemes at Fontainebleau, and at St. Germain-en-Laye 

 (1595). His work in the Gardens of the Tuileries was, how- 

 ever, totally destroyed by freezing. Andre Mollet, the third 

 of the family and son of Claude, became gardener to Louis 

 XIII. He was afterward called by James I to England, where 

 his work had a determining influence on the development of 

 gardening in the United Kingdom. 



Bernard Palissy, the same who is better known for his 

 work in porcelain, is remembered in gardening annals for a 

 certain fabulous pleasure-ground which was carried out, accord- 

 ing to his unbridled imagination, for Catherine de Medici at 

 Chenonceaux, where he completely abandoned himself to his 

 fancy for rockeries, basins, frogs, turtles, snakes, shell-work, 

 etc. A long ''dialogue" of his on this subject, expatiating on 

 the beauties of the work, is quoted by Mangin in his interest- 

 ing book. 



THE PALACE FROM THE PARK 



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