218 ■ A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



;£'20i. lo." This removal took place some thirty years after 

 the trees had been planted. Other changes were made in the 

 " Mount Garden " and the " Privy Garden," " Queen Mary's 

 Bower,'" of pleached elms, was planted, the old orchard turned 

 into a wilderness, the terrace along the river was made, and 

 probably the maze was laid out about the same time. Wise 

 also planned the " Broadwalk " which runs all along the front 

 of the palace between it and the fountain garden."^ Blenheim 

 Garden was another of their great undertakings, and they were 

 three years in finishing it, A fine specimen of their style is 

 still to be seen at Melbourne in Derbyshire. The gardens of 

 Sir Richard Child, at Wanstead in Essex, of Bushey Park, 

 of Cranborne, and of Castle Howard, were some of their other 

 works ; at the last-mentioned place Switzer says they reached 

 " the highest pitch that Natural and Polite gardening can ever 

 arrive to." On the accession of Queen Anne, Wise was given 

 the care of the Royal Gardens, and London confined himself 

 chiefly to work in the country. He passed his time going a 

 round of great gardens, frequently, it is said, riding a distance 

 of fifty to sixty miles a day, in the course of his business. 



Moses Cook, one of the original partners, published a work 

 on fruit trees, but London and Wise were the popular writers, as 

 well as designers, of the firm. They translated two works from 

 the French, the Complete Gardener, from Jean de la Quintin3'e 

 (first ed. 1699). and the Retired Gardener, from Louis Liger, 

 with the Solitary Gardener, from Le Gentil. They added 

 copious notes from their own experience ; the information 

 is all conveyed in the form of question and answer between 

 a gentleman about to purchase a seat in the country, and 

 "taste the Sweets of Country Life," and a gardener. The 

 gentleman asks such questions as, " Suppose I have some cases 

 sent me from abroad . . . when I receive them my ground 

 is lock'd up by a frost . . . what must I do with them ? " 

 Gardener: — "Upon Receipt of your trees, which I suppose 

 sent in cases with moss laid round the roots .... you must 



* In the estimate for the work, the walk was to cost ^650. 13s., and the 

 turfing of the sides, and planting and making the borders, ^490. los., and ^'210 

 respectively. — Treasury Papers Ixiii., 48, ^cc. 



