Evolution of Ibortfculture 



and also by his diary, in which he speaks 

 warmly of Sir William Temple's garden 

 at Sheen. Of the seat of the Duke of 

 Lauderdale, in Middlesex, he says : " The 

 parterres, flower gardens, orangeries, 

 groves, avenues, courts, statues, per- 

 spective fountains, aviaries, and all this 

 on the bank of the sweetest river in the 

 world, must needs be admirable." He 

 afterwards speaks of other places which 

 were laid out in similar style. 



During the eighteenth century, the 

 characteristic features of the art of gar- 

 dening which have been considered, 

 underwent the most remarkable changes, 

 which appear to have risen contempo- 

 raneously on the Continent and in Bng- 

 land. The faint dawn of the modern or 

 natural design of gardening, ushered in 

 by the writings of Bacon, was gradually 

 followed by the daylight, and finally, in 

 the latter part of the century, by the full 

 noon-tide of the popular favor. The 

 essays of Addison, published in the Spec- 

 tator, greatly contributed to this innova- 

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