58 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND in 



Britannicum. This work would have been a 

 most exhaustive treatise. It was to have con- 

 sisted of three books — the first deaUng with 

 the soil of the garden and the seasons, the 

 second with garden design under twenty -one 

 heads, the third with the means of producing 

 rare species, distilling, and various miscellaneous 

 points. I give in an appendix a complete 

 list of the subdivisions. Unfortunately Evelyn 

 never carried out his intention ; but the titles 

 left by him are important, as showing how 

 Evelyn conceived of a garden, and the clear 

 distinction which existed in his mind between 

 garden design and horticulture. 



With the Restoration a change came over 

 the designs of the larger English gardens. 

 Charles II. was in intimate relations with 

 the brilliant Court of Louis XIV., at a time 

 when the latter was in the full swing of his 

 magnificence, and . when architects such as 

 Mansard and Perrault were seconded by a de- 

 signer of such remarkable genius as Le Notre. 

 The noble paths and terraces, the great avenues 

 and masses of foliage, the broad expanse of 

 grass and water in which Le Notre delighted, 

 became the fashion in England. Whatever 

 faults Le Notre may have had (and to the 

 landscapist he represents all that is detestable), 

 he was at least a man of large ideas and 

 scholarly execution. He carried the art of 

 garden design to the highest point of develop- 



