324 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



The 



Wilder- 



The 



Higher 



Level, 



Private 

 Walk. 



Shadow 

 houses. 



[Lime 

 trees and 

 Elms.] 



Cypress 

 trees. 



Cherry 

 trees. 



gravelled alley in or near the middle of the said turfed tarras, sets 

 forth the Maze to lie towards the east, and the Wilderness towards 

 the west. The Maze consists of young trees, wood[s], and sprays 

 of a good growth and height, cut out into several meanders, circles, 

 semicircles, windings, and intricate turnings, the walks or intervals 

 whereof are all grass plots. This Maze, as it is now ordered, adds 

 very much to the worth of the Upper Level. The Wilderness (a 

 work of a vast expense to the maker thereof) consists of many 

 young trees, woods, and sprays of a good growth and height, cut 

 and formed into several ovals, squares, and angles, very well 

 ordered ; in most of the angular points whereof, as also in the 

 centre of every oval, stands one Lime tree or Elm. All the alleys 

 of this wilderness, being in number eighteen, are of a gravelled 

 earth, very well ordered and maintained ; the whole work being 

 compiled with such order and decency, as that it is not one of 

 the least of the ornaments of the said Manor or Mansion House. 

 The foresaid alley dividing the said Maze and Wilderness is 

 planted on each side thereof with Lime trees and Elms, betwixt 

 every tree whereof grows a Cypress tree ; at the south end of 

 which alley, and in the wall that parts the said Upper Garden 

 from the Vineyard Garden, betwixt two fair pillars of brick, there 

 are set fair and large pair of railed gates, of good ornament to 

 both the said gardens. On the South side of the said Maze and 

 Wilderness there is one close or private gravelled walk, inclosed 

 on each side thereof with a very high and well grown hedge of 

 thorn, extending itself from the East wall to the West wall of the 

 said Upper Garden ; at each end of which close walk there stands 

 one little shadow or summer house, covered with blue slate and 

 ridged with lead, and fitted for resting places. Which Maze and 

 Wilderness, over and besides the trees thereof, which are herein 

 hereafter valued amongst the other trees of the Upper Garden, and 

 the materials of the said two shadow or summer houses, we 

 value to be worth ^(^o. 



There are in the said Upper Garden one hundred thirty one 

 Lime trees and sixty eight elms, of good growths, worth in the 

 gross at £44. 13s. 



There are in the said higher and lower level of the said Upper 

 Garden one hundred twenty three Cypress trees of divers growths, 

 which, although they are not of any great profit, yet, as they are 

 now planted, they exceedingly adorn and set forth the said upper 

 garden, which trees, one with another, we value to be worth in 

 the whole £30. 15s. 



There are also in the said higher and lower level an hundred 

 and nineteen Cherry trees, well planted and ordered, and 

 of a great growth in themselves, the fruit whereof cannot but 



