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or thirty feet wide of considerable length, and pro- 

 tected by a balustrade of detached banisters, of 

 handsome design pierced in stone. From the Terrace 

 wide flights of steps at either end lead to the broad 

 sanded walks that divide the parterre into several 

 subdivisions, which are again divided by narrow 

 paths into smaller designs. 



"The general shape is square, following the 

 antique classical garden of Pliny's time, enclosed 

 with trellis-work, espaliers, clipped box-hedges, 

 statuary, fountains, vases, and pleached alleys." 



The famous Nonsuch, near Ewell, in Surrey, laid 

 out by Henry VIII toward the end of his life, re- 

 tained its appearance for more than a hundred years ; 

 for at the time of the Parliamentary Survey (1650) 

 it was thus described: 



"It was cut out and divided into several allies, 

 quarters and rounds, set about with thorn hedges; 

 on the north side is a kitchen garden, very commodi- 

 ous and surrounded with a brick wall of fourteen 

 feet high. On the west is a wilderness severed from 

 the little park by a lodge, the whole containing ten 

 acres. In the privy garden were pyramids, fountains 

 and basins of marble, one of which is set round with 

 six lilack trees, which trees bear no fruit, but a very 

 pleasant flower. Before the Palace is a neat and 



