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wall was another lodge, and a few trees near it, known 

 as the Wilderness. 



The aspect of the Mall has greatly changed since 

 the days when its fashion was at its height. Then the 

 gardens of St. James's Palace ran the whole length of the 

 north side from the Palace towards Whitehall. Stephen 

 Switzer, writing in 17 15, extols the beauty of the garden, 

 which by his time was cut up and partly built on. " The 

 Royal Garden in St. James's Park, part of which is now in 

 the possession of the Right Honourable Lord Carlton, 

 and the upper part belonging to Marlborough House, 

 was of that King's [Charles II.] planting, which were in 

 the remembrance of most people the finest Lines of 

 Dwarfs perhaps in the Universe. Mr. London" . . , 

 presumed " before Monsieur de la Quintinge, the famous 

 French gardener, ... to challenge all France with the 

 like, and if France, why not the whole World .'' " 



Carlton House, a red-brick building, with the stone 

 portico now in front of the National Gallery, was built 

 in 1709 on part of this garden. Some twenty years 

 later, before it was purchased by Frederick, Prince of 

 Wales, the grounds belonging to the house were laid out 

 by Kent. Until Carlton House was pulled down in 

 1827, therefore, the Mall was bounded on the north by 

 choice gardens. Between the Mall and the walls of 

 these gardens ran the " Green Walk," or " Duke 

 Humphrey's Walk," as it was also often called. The 

 origin of the latter name is to be traced to old St. Paul's. 

 The monument to Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in the 

 centre aisle of old St. Paul's Cathedral was where " poore 

 idlers " and " careless mal-contents " congregated — 



" Poets of Paules, those of Duke Humfrye's messe 

 That feed on nought but graves and emptinesse." 



