68 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND 



formal style that it requires great space. 

 Unfortunately, the original design has been 

 destroyed in all these gardens, but their main 

 dimensions have not been altered, and Logan's 

 views give a very accurate idea of their general 

 character/ 



Meanwhile, there was a vigorous revival in 

 the literature of gardens. Little or nothing 



had been written on 

 the laying out of gar- 

 dens since the time 

 of Markham and 

 Lawson. In 1665 

 appeared Flora^ 

 Ceres^ and Pomona, 

 by John Rea, Gent. 

 The greater part of 

 this book is taken up 

 with descriptions of 

 flowers, plants, and 

 fruit-trees, and hor- 

 -From Logan. ticultural notes. But 



the introduction to the first book contains some 

 account of the proper ordering of a " garden 

 of delight," — that is, of the Fruit garden and 

 the Flower garden. Rea wrote his book in his 

 old age, and after forty years' practice as a 

 planter of gardens, and though he describes 

 his work as a " Florilege " and an innovation on 

 the old method of the Herbal, with a sly dig at 



^ Logan's Oxonia lUustrata, 1675 5 Cantabrigia Illustrata. 



Fig. 



