GARDEN DESIGN IN THE NETHERLANDS 



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LAYING OUT THE PARTERRE, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



Never expected ; 



Vriendschap 



en gexelschaf. 



Friendship and 



sociability ; Het 



vermaak is in 



t'' h z> e n i e r e n^ 



There is pleasure 



in gardening. In 



the early Dutch 



gardens, aviaries 



were provided for 



domestic purposes, 



but by the seven- 

 teenth century 



they had become 



decorative acces- 

 sories. The elaborate example from Westerhof dates from the early 



eighteenth century ; an octagonal aviary for smaller birds is placed within a 



sunken square 

 court. During the 

 landscape period 

 a great variety of 

 aviaries were de- 

 signed, in the shape 

 of Classic temples 

 and Chinese pago- 

 das, Gothic ruins 

 and Turkish 

 Mosques, but 

 they do not 

 compare with the 

 more appropriate 

 structures of the 

 seventeenth cen- 



AVIARY AT WESTERHOF, FROM AN ENGRAVING BY J. MOUCHERON. tury. 



