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few diagrams of knots and designs for quarters, 

 but says very little to the purpose on garden 

 design. In 1697 Meager published another 

 book entitled The New Art of Gardenings but 

 both his works are inferior in value to the 

 Sy sterna Horticulturie, or Art of Gardenings by 

 J. W., Gent., published in 1677, "illustrated 

 with sculptures representing the form of 

 gardens according to the newest models." J. W. 

 is John Worlidge. His work consists of three 

 books, and describes the details of the garden 

 with some minuteness. The shape of the 

 garden, its general plan, its walls and fences, 

 its walks and arbours, terraces, seats, pleasure- 

 houses, fountains and water - works, statues, 

 obelisks, and dials, are all successively dealt 

 with, and followed by a systematic treatise on 

 the flowers and trees with which the gardens 

 should be planted. Worlidge repeated Rea's 

 complaint as to the banishment of flowers, and 

 the excessive use of sculpture in gardens, but 

 his garden was perfectly formal and did not 

 depart from the traditional lines in any sense 

 whatever. No serious change was introduced 

 under William and Mary, except that the habit 

 of clipping yew and box trees was carried to 

 an excess that made it an easy prey for the 

 sarcasm of Pope in the following century. The 

 Dutch were fond of queer little trifles, and used 

 to cut their trees into every conceivable shape. 

 Switzer says that *' this fashion was brought 



