192 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND ix 



wanted quiet. At the opposite end of the 

 terrace there was to be a similar building for 

 roots and seeds, which Worlidge says was 

 usually termed a green-house. At Montacute 

 the pleasure-houses are in two storeys, square, 



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with semicircular bays on all four sides, and a 

 slated cupola terminating in an open ball. At 

 Swarkestone there is a large seventeenth-century 

 building known as ''the Balcony" which was 

 the banqueting-house to the Hall, now destroyed. 

 This building stands in the centre of the further 



