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a moat. This was probably a garden of herbs. 

 Kip's view of New Park, in Surrey, shows a 

 large garden, cut out in the side of a hill, with 

 a high double embankment above it, and an 

 embankment in three levels below. The house 

 stood at the bottom of the hill. This is an 

 exceedingly foolish arrangement. The garden 

 would be invisible from the house except to a 

 person standing on the top of the chimney. If 

 you must have hanging gardens, it is better, as 

 Worlidge pointed out, to have them below the 

 house than above it, and not to put the terraces 

 too close together — that is to say, to keep the 

 level pieces (what the French used to call the. 

 Plein pied) as wide as possible, otherwise you 

 are in a constant state of going up and down 

 stairs. There are good examples of combined 

 terrace and bank work at Clevedon Court in 

 Somerset, and in the garden of St. Catherine's 

 Court, Bath. In The Theory of Gardening a third 

 method of dealing with sloping ground is given. 

 This dispensed with terraces and left the ground 

 on a slope, but provided at intervals elaborate 

 landing-places, called generally " amphitheatres " 

 with " easy ascents and flights of steps for com- 

 munication, with front paces, counter-terraces, 

 volutes, rolls, banks, and slopes of grass, placed 

 and disposed with symmetry," and further 

 adorned with figures and fountains. This was 

 considered in France the most magnificent way 

 of dealing with a slope, but it was seldom 



