7 6 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature, 



Colonel Mercer, something like the modern 

 summer-house had come into regular vogue, 

 for the author there speaks of " seated 

 arbours covered with woodbine." 



In reference to grottoes in noblemen's 

 grounds, Worlidge observes : 



" The most famous of this kind that this kingdom 

 affords, is that Wiltonian Grotto near unto Salisbury, 

 on which no cost was spared to make it compleat, and 

 wherein you may view, or might have lately so done, 

 the best of water-works, far excelling what Rapinus 

 sings of late Richlieu's palace in France." 



Mr. Wright has inserted in his volume of 

 Domestic Manners and Sentiments an en- 

 graving from the romance of Alexander, in 

 which we are introduced to a garden where 

 two crowned personages are playing at chess, 

 and a third individual in some outer court 

 is apparently engaged in making a selection 

 from the plants around him. We can see 

 most of him, as, although there is a palisade 

 nearly as high as the gateway between us, it 

 reaches very little beyond his knee, and if he 

 stretched across, he might, judging from the 

 very Chinese perspective, readily pick a man 



