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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



of Prideaux in Cornwall, when on a tour in Norfolk. The 

 second view is from a photograph taken in 1894 from as nearly 

 as possible the same point of view. The lake which covers 

 seventy acres was made about 1842, and all traces of the stiff 

 pond have vanished. A pretty example of the early landscape 

 style is to be found at Gunnersbury, near London.* The original 

 house, which was built by Inigo Jones or his pupil Webbe, in 

 1663, for Sir John Maynard, has disappeared. The gardens were 



GUNNERSBURY PARK. A TEMPLE IN THE GARDEN. 



chiefly laid out by Kent about 1750, and added to by Princess 

 Amelia, who bought the place in 1761 and spent large sums on the 

 garden. The wall, some of the temples and a bath summer house 

 built by her, and an imitation gothic ruin still remain, as well 

 as many fine timber trees, especially cedars. 



By the end of the eighteenth century landscape gardening had 



* Belonging to Mr. Leopold Rothschild, and now specially famous for the 

 fruit-growing under glass, which is carried to great perfection. 



