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the great illustration of the grand manner in England, but 

 it exists alvi at Castle HoA.ird, Melbourne, and many other 

 places. It was a st\le that belonged to pal. ices and to great 

 houses, and that lent itself in n<- degree t' ^^^^^^^ 

 the needs ot the smaller gardens .if the land. 

 It cannot be adopted, except up m a large f 

 scale, without failure, and some of the minor 

 features by wh ch it was accompanied do not 

 commend themselves to modern taste. 



The classic pleasaunce had come originally 

 from Italy, and the famous Lud ' . Jens, 



which have been often descrilvd, were a tine 

 type of stately gardening at its best. There 

 were numerous alleys in them, orange groves. 

 and cypress copses, fountains, statues, and 

 vases. A French writer of the beginning 

 of the eighteenth century. Charles de Brosses, 

 the translator of Sallust, who contrasted these 

 gardens with those of the Tuileries, regarded 

 them with particular pleasure, because they 

 had been Sallust's gardens in ancient times. 

 He remarked that the Italians followed their 

 jwn tastes, and adapted their gardens to their 

 climate. They wished to have green trees 

 all the year round, grass in their walks instead 

 of gravel, long and palisaded ways, giving 

 shelter in the noonday heat, and many foun- 

 tains, statues, and architectural a. 



dl satiation. This, indeed, was the 

 great age of garden architecture, and, still, 

 what can be more delightful than to tread 

 some mossy stairway, shadowed by an ancient 

 lime or a hollow- walnut tree, with the 

 sculptured vase or the twisted urn at its sides, 

 which our garden-loving ancestors trod of 

 yore ? 



It was William III. who chiefly popul 

 in England the grandiose style of the Continent, 

 and Hampton Court is our most splendid 

 example of the school of Le Notre. The 

 greatest effort of William was m the fine 

 semi-circular gardens, w .th the three radiating 

 avenues, and the long water, in the Home 

 Park beyond. This great canal was formed 

 under the King's personal direction, and London 



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arranged the- i and 



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 tile splendid \ e\ls and ' 



N long to the tirm- ot Charles 

 II.. and were placed there bv 

 Ins gardener. \*'^ 

 the river-side were ruli grilles 

 o| m.igiHicent ironwork, of 

 which MI ne are now in South 

 Kensington. ( Mh. r gardens 

 IK hiding th'.' 



^tf^f '' ' ' iarden "t an earlier 



^^ date, belonging to the p.. 



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other side stretihed out the 



park of Bushey. with the 

 long a v e n u e hofse-i h.-st- 

 nut and lime and the 

 I liana fountain. 



But .1 oil from the 

 grandiose manner nf I.e Noire 

 and his sJi.il s. H >n Iniin.l 

 expression. Huet, (hetanmus 

 Bishop of Soissons and 

 Avranches. verv shortly alter 

 I V'tre's tune, spoke sar- 



IV of his water-elteits, 

 and of the taste of the 

 century which not hi tig 



pleased unless it w ere ios||y. 

 In our own Country. I 1 u- of whose satires have Ix-eti 



alluded tn. exilaimed that tlv grand style ,,f gardening was 

 Contrary to the vrnpluitv of Horner. and pr.. . lay out 





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