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us how the squires and land-owners of Great Britain 

 interpreted the delights of Parks, Gardens, and 

 especially Orchards 1 : and not only in Great Britain, 

 but at Versailles and throughout Europe in these 

 Quincuncial " Forests " of the Louis Quartorzians. 

 " Great Parks mapped out and planted for Royal (and 

 seignorial) amusement: radiations of smooth white roads 

 from the big quincunxed Palace (Chateau, Schloss, 

 Mansion or Manor) and then more radiations along 

 those wide grassy avenues, green cuttings, when trees 

 are close, deep tracks in russet leaves, when they are 

 thin." 



We may almost generalise the garden-problem in 

 the first half of the eighteenth century, by saying that 

 it lay in the embodiment and realisation of the 

 theoretical Quincuncial Park-Forest expounded by 

 Sir Thomas Browne and his disciples. 



My readers I am sure would not thank me if I 

 withheld from them the opinions of " The Garden 

 of Cyrus" expressed by three Masters of English 

 letters and criticism, as separate in date, thought, 

 and expression as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor 



1 See Kip's and Knyff's copper-plates in " Theatrum 

 Magnae Britanniae " or Beeverel's " Devices de la Grande 

 Bretagne." 



