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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



his reader to the plates at the end of the book, where he 

 has " presented to view divers forms or plots for gardens." 

 In 1697, he speaks of parterres, and his designs are very 

 similar. Sir Thomas Hanmer, in notes for his proposed 

 work on gardening, also uses the two words : — " If the ground 

 be spacious, the next adjacent quarters or parterres, as the 

 French call them, are often of fine turf, but as low as any 

 green to bowl on ; cut out curiously into embroidery of 

 flowers, and shapes of arabesques, animals, or birds, or 

 feuillages, and the small alleys or intervals filled with several 



PARTERRE. FROM LONDON AND WISE. 



coloured sands and dust with much art, with but few flowers 

 in such knots, and those only such as grow very low lest they 

 spoil the beauty of the embroidery." Parterre is thus explained 

 in Miller's Dictionary, 1724: "A level division of ground, 

 which for the most part faces the South, and is best in front 

 of a House, and is generally furnished with greens and flowers. 

 There are several sorts of parterres, as bowling-green, or 

 plain parterres, and parterres of embroidery .... Plain 

 parterres most beautiful in England by reason of their turf, 

 and that decency and unaffected simplicity it affords the eye ; 



