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designs by Henry Wise between 1704 and 17 1 1. 

 The older garden appears to have consisted 

 of a terrace, with two levels below it and 

 red -brick walls on either side. The lower 

 wall was probably removed, and an extensive 

 bosquet or grove planted, with a great water- 

 piece and several smaller fountains. Long 

 alleys with palisades of limes were formed, and 

 an amphitheatre of limes, with vistas radiating 

 in all directions from a superb lead urn in the 

 centre. The ground is of irregular plan, but 

 the difficulties are met by the design in a most 

 masterly manner. Some alterations were made 

 in the garden about fifty years ago. Otherwise 

 the original design is substantially perfect, and 

 is a very valuable instance of a garden laid out 

 when the French influence was still dominant 

 in England. This influence, however, was 

 practically limited to the grounds of men of 

 large estate, and the gardens of the smaller gentry 

 were laid out on a much less costly scale, 

 and without any great departure from tradi- 

 tional lines. The gardens of Doddington, in 

 Lincolnshire, or Dunham Massie, in Cheshire, 

 as presented by Kip, show little or no French 

 influence ; and the small gardens shown in 

 Logan's views of the Colleges of Oxford 

 and Cambridge might have been laid out by 

 Gervase Markham or William Lawson him- 

 self. The Oxford and Cambridge gardens 

 most efl^ectually meet the objection to the 



