1 6 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



that the following pages dealt, inter alia, 

 with "divers herbers [arbours], knots and 

 mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying 

 of gardens" 



These artifices, which modern feeling has 

 by no means eschewed, had of course a 

 tendency to excite competition, and it was 

 the aim of every artist to outdo his prede- 

 cessor. As it is not a production which 

 belongs to the chronological series, I shall 

 take the opportunity to indicate as a curio- 

 sity the engraved views of the gardens at 

 Wilton, which were laid out probably by 

 Isaac de Caus, an engineer and a native of 

 Dieppe, for Philip, Earl of Pembroke and 

 Montgomery, about 1645, anc ^ are at a ^ 



/. events described by De Caus in a series of 

 engravings called Hortus Penbrochianus^ ou 

 Le Jar din de Wilton. 



It is, no doubt, to be regretted that there 

 are not other graphic representations of early 

 English gardens, besides those at Wilton, 

 Cobham, etc. In his Gleanings on Gardens 



) (1829), Felton supplies us with some highly 

 interesting glimpses of the ornamental grounds 



