5 2 THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS 



passage into these airy walks, is out of the two summer- 

 houses at the end of the first terrace- walk. The 

 cloister facing the south is covered with vines, and 

 would have been proper for an orange-house, and the 

 other for myrtles, or other more common greens ; and 

 had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this 

 piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as 

 it is now. 



From the middle of this parterre is a descent by 

 many steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies 

 between them (covered with lead, and flat) into the 

 lower garden, which is all fruit-trees ranged about the 

 several quarters of a wilderness which is very shady ; 

 the walks here are all green, the grotto embellished 

 with figures of shell-rockwork, fountains and water- 

 works. If the hill had not ended with the lower 

 garden, and the wall were not bounded by a common 

 way that goes through the park, they might have added 

 a third quarter of all greens ; but this want is supplied 

 by a garden on the other side of the house, which is 

 all of that sort, very wild, shady, and adorned with 

 rough rockwork and fountains. 



This was Moor Park, when I was acquainted with 

 it, and the sweetest place, 1 think, that I have seen in 

 my life, either before or since, at home or abroad ; 



