APPENDIX II 



COUNT TALLARD'S GARDEN AT 

 NOTTINGHAM 



Marshal Count Tallard, the commander of the French 

 forces, was taken prisoner at the battle of Blenheim, or 

 Hochstedt as the Germans called it, and interned at 

 Nottingham. London and Wise laid out a garden for him 

 in 1706, of which they have left a detailed description in 

 The Retired Gardiner. The reproduction is taken from the 

 plate in Les Delices de la Grande Bret ague. In front of the 

 house was a terrace about 60 feet long and 14. wide. In 

 front of this was a parterre of grass-work, generally called 

 a " fund of grass," laid out in cut-work {gazon coupe) all 

 in grass. The paths of this parterre w.ere filled in with 

 different coloured materials, such as brick dust, coal slag, 

 sand, etc. There seem to have been no flowers to this 

 parterre, except some plants in pots, and this particular 

 part of the design sounds rather puerile. 



Above this parterre on the right was another parterre 

 with a grass terrace on a higher level. Below it and in 

 front of it was a third parterre in grass, reached by a flight 

 of seven steps. At the farther end of the garden was a 

 raised walk of grass, with a border of flowers on one side, 

 and pyramidal trees and flower-pots on the other. At the 

 left-hand corner was a banqueting-house, reached from the 

 raised walk, with a room under it, entered from the level 



