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high state of cultivation of the land permitted. In all the larger gardens 

 the vast parterre unrelieved hy Siuy difference in level appears dull and 

 uninteresting. 



Later gardens are well illustrated in De Cantillon's work Verma- 

 kelykheden van Brabant^ containing a variety of garden designs in quaint 

 perspective views. The characteristics of the gardens we have already 

 noticed are not to any extent changed and the influence of Le Notre is not 

 yet felt. Although the work was published in 1770, the probability is 

 that these engravings are much earlier, for another work, Les delices de Bra- 

 bant, which was published in 1757, shows into what a state of disrepair the 



chateaux of this 'district had then 

 fallen. 



The influence of Versailles and 

 Le Notre did not immediately spread 

 to Holland, and garden books that 

 appeared a quarter of a century 

 after Versailles reached the height of 

 its glory, do not even mention the 

 new style that Le Notre had intro- 

 duced. It was not until William 

 III had laid out his royal gardens, 

 that the great French gardens were 



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