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ing the names of Worlidge, Evelyn, 

 Bacon, and Temple will receive fitting 

 mention in these pages. 



The formal, mathematical features 

 which had distinguished the pleasure 

 grounds and gardens attained their 

 height at the termination of the seven- 

 teenth century. " What multitudes of 

 grand, quaint, and artificial gardens were 

 spread over the country, and stood in all 

 that stately formality which Henry and 

 Elizabeth admired, and in which our Sur- 

 reys, Leicesters, Bssexes : the splendid 

 nobles of the Tudor dynasty, the gay 

 ladies and gallants of Charles II' s court, 

 had walked and talked, fluttered in glit- 

 tering processions, or flirted in green al- 

 leys and bowers of topiary-work : and 

 amid figures, in lead or stone, fountains, 

 cascades, copper trees dropping sudden 

 showers on the astonished passers under, 

 stately terraces with gilded balustrades, 

 and curious quincunx, obelisks, and pyra- 

 mids." l To the above, Johnson truly 

 1 Rural England, by Howitt. 

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