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THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND 



above the level of the orchard or garden. The 

 outer bank of this walk is to be planted with 

 thorn, the inner with cherry, plum, damson, 

 bulks, or filbert, and the trees to be trimmed 

 to any form you fancy. At each corner of the 

 walk and in the middle of each side '' a mound 

 would be raysed, whereabout the woode might 

 claspe, powdered with woodebinde." There is 

 an orchard at the Lordship House, Hadham, 

 in Hertfordshire, which closely follows this idea, 

 and was probably laid out early in the seventeenth 

 century. The orchard, which is rectangular, is 

 surrounded by a moat (now dry), and beyond 

 this, on either side, are raised grass walks 

 with old yew hedges. The effect is extremely 

 good. Switzer mentions a terrace walk at the 

 end of a garden 12 to 20 feet wide, 2 to 3 feet 

 above the, garden, with a parapet wall on the 

 outer side, and a graft or ditch to separate it 

 from the park 1 5- feet wide and 5 deep. This 

 sounds rather bare and uninviting after Lawson's 

 beautiful idea. 



