ENGLISH GARDENS OF i6th, 17TH AND i8th CENTURIES 215 



creeping plants. The pond garden at Hampton Court was originally so 

 enclosed. 



Bowling greens and greens for practising archery were considered 

 essential in the gardens of every important country house. They are still 

 to be met with throughout England ; carefully levelled and shaded stretches 

 of turf generally overlooked by some pleasant gazebo. 



A TERRACE AT ST. CATHERINE S COURT. 



The English garden authors of the seventeenth century relied almost 

 entirely upon'the French writers of the sixteenth, for though Richard Surflet 

 brought out his edition of Estienne's Maison Rustique towards the latter years 

 of the sixteenth century, it did not attain any great popularity until Gervase 

 Markham re-edited the work in 1616. Markham had travelled much on 

 the Continent, having also served as a soldier in the Low Countries. He 



