Ill THE FORMAL GARDEN 57 



contintant plusieurs dessins de jardinage, tant 

 parterres en Broderie^ compartiments de gazoiu 

 que Bosquets et autres. On the title-page of 

 this book Mollet is described as '* Maistre des 

 Jardins de la serenissime Reine de Suede." 



The period from the outbreak of the Civil 

 War to the Restoration is, comparatively speak- 

 ing, a blank in the history of the arts. Evelyn 

 records the destruction of part of the gardens 

 at Nonsuch by the Puritans; writing in 1666, 

 he says : " There stand in the garden two 

 handsome ^ stone pyramids, and the avenue 

 planted with rowes of faire elmes ; but the rest 

 of these goodly trees both of this and Worcester 

 Park adjoyning, were felled by those destructive 

 & avaricious rebels in the late war, which 

 defaced one of the stateliest seats his Majesty 

 had." No one did more than Evelyn to 

 encourage the study of horticulture in England ; 

 he wrote treatises and translations^ himself, and 

 induced W^orlidge and others to write on the 

 subject ; but though fully alive to the beauty of 

 a well -designed garden, he paid less attention 

 to the question of garden design, foreseeing, 

 perhaps, the chaos which was to follow the inter- 

 ference of the man of letters in the eighteenth 

 century. It seems that Evelyn did contemplate a 

 book on garden design, under the title of Elysium 



^ The English Vineyard, ^663 ; Sylva, 1664; Kalendarium Her tense, 

 1666; The French Gardiner, translated by J. E., 1672; Of Gardens, by 

 Rapin, translated by J. E., 1673 ; ^^'^ Complcat Gardener^De la ^uintinye, 

 translated 1693 j Directions concerning Melons, 1693. 



