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views published by Isaac de Caux show long 

 green galleries arched over with pavilions at the 

 ends and in the centre ; and some less elaborate 

 galleries are shown in Logan's views of Pem- 

 broke, Oxford. The prints reproduced from 

 The Gardener s Labyrinth and The Hortus 

 Floridus of Crispin de Pass show their general 

 character. The long yew walk at Melbourne 

 is really a green gallery without the openings. 

 It was planted early in the eighteenth century. 

 Its length from the top to the fountain is 120 

 paces, its width inside 12 feet. The yew has 

 grown into an impenetrable vault of branches 

 overhead, so thick that it is proof against an 

 ordinary shower of rain. The green gallery was 

 not an importation of the sixteenth century, but 

 a direct survival of the mediasval garden. In 

 " The Romance of the Rose " there are several 

 beautiful illustrations of these green galleries, 

 formed of light poles framed square, as described 

 in The Gardener s Labyrinth^ and overgrown with 

 roses, red and white. They continued in use 

 till the end of the seventeenth century, when, 

 as was the case with nearly all that was beautiful 

 in the formal garden, they were elaborated out 

 of all reason, and only continued in use in quiet 

 country gardens where the master loved his 

 garden, and liked the old ways better than the 

 new. In The Retired Gard'ner^ by London and 

 Wise, full directions are given for the information 

 of green galleries and porticoes and colonnades of 



