348 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 



dendrons, which, as the picture shows, stand out with 

 brilliant colour in summer against the green background. 

 This garden opens into a bowling-green enclosed by 

 cut lime trees, and a cool walk for surnmer shaded by 

 pleached lime trees. A seductive broad walk bordered 

 with fruit-trees is another feature. This attractive garden 

 has been made within the last eighteen years. The con- 

 ception of it was due to Lord Bute, and the designing 

 and carrying out to Mr. Schultz. The other side of 

 the house, with a wide terrace and park stretching 

 down toward the water, has no special horticultural 

 feature, but the formal garden is full of charm, and 

 the plants are thriving and trees growing up so fast 

 there is no trace of its newness. It only shows how 

 much can be done where knowledge and good taste are 

 displayed. 



St. James's Park is still skirted by garden walls — 

 Stafford, Clarence, and Marlborough Houses, as well as 

 St. James's Palace, though their gardens are hardly as 

 elaborate as those of former years. The garden of that 

 Palace delighted the Sieur de la Serre, who accompanied 

 Marie de Medicis when she came to pay a visit to 

 Henrietta Maria and Charles I. and was lodged in 

 St. James's Palace. After describing the house, " there 

 were, besides," he writes, " two grand gardens with 

 parterres of different figures, bordered on every side 

 by a hedge of box, carefully cultivated by the hands 

 of a skilful gardener ; and in order to render the 

 walks on both sides which enclosed it appear more 

 agreeable, all sorts of fine flowers were sowed. . . . 

 The other garden, which was adjoining and of the 

 same extent, had divers walks, some sanded and others 

 grass, but both bordered on each side by an infinity of 



