78 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND iv 



in rather disparaging terms of London's power 

 as a designer. Both London and Wise seem to 

 have been taken by the Dutch manner, though 

 London, at any rate, had seen the great French 

 gardens, and in his design for the gardens of 

 Melbourne, 1704, he was much more influenced 

 by French than by Dutch examples. In 1706 

 London and Wise published The Retired 

 Gard'ner^ a translation from Le Jardinier 

 Solitaire^ and a treatise of the Sieur Louis 



Liger of Auxerre, with 

 corrections by the trans- 

 lators. The only sub- 

 stantial addition which 

 London and Wise made 



Fig, 16. — From London and Wise, ^q ^his book WaS a 



description of the garden laid out by them for 

 Marshal Tallard ^ at Nottingham. London died 

 in 1 7 13. He lived just long enough to see 

 all the boxwork at Hampton Court, which he 

 had planted for William, pulled up by Queen 

 Anne. 



Another translation from the French appeared 

 in 1 712, entitled The Theory and Practice of 

 Gardenings done from the French Original^ by 

 John James of Greenwich. It is not known 

 who wrote the original. It has been attributed 

 both to D'Argenville Dezalliers and to Le 

 Blond, pupils of Le Notre. Le Blond seems the 

 more probable author. James does not appear 



^ See Appendix II. 



