ceau, and Fontainbleau, and whose name and me- 

 mory (as Mr. Loudon observes), has been too much 

 forgotten ; Bornefond, author of Jardinier Franois, 

 et delices de la campagne ; Louis Liger, of consummate 

 experience in the florist's art, "auteur d'un grand 

 nombre d'ouvrages sur 1'agriculture, et le jardinage," 

 and one of whose works was thought not unworthy 

 of being revised by London and Wise, and of whose 



where he did not leave marks of his magnificence, to which he was 

 chiefly incited by a principle of charity, and regard to the public 

 good. At Rosny, he raised that fine terrace, which runs along the 

 Seine, to a prodigious extent, and those great gardens, filled with 

 groves, arbours, and grottos, with water-works. He embellished 

 Sully with gardens, of which the plants were the finest in the world, 

 and with a canal, supplied with fresh water by the little river San- 

 gle, which he turned that way, and which is afterwards lost in the 

 Loire. He erected a machine to convey the water to all the basons 

 and fountains, of which the gardens are full. He enlarged the cas- 

 tle of La Chapelle d'Angillon, and embellished it with gardens and 

 terraces." 



These gardens somewhat remind one of these lines, quoted by 

 Barnaby Gooche : 



Have fountaines sweet at hand, or mossie waters, 



Or pleasaunt brooke, that passing through the meads, is sweetly scene. 



That fine gardens delighted Sully, is evident even from his own 

 statement of his visit to the Duke d'Aumale's, at Anet, near Ivry, 

 (where Henry and Sully fought in that famous battle), for he says, 

 " Joy animated the countenance of Madame d'Aumale the mo- 

 ment she perceived me. She gave me a most kind and friendly 

 reception, took me by the hand, and led me through those fine gal- 

 leries and beautiful gardens, which make Anet a most enchanting 

 place." One may justly apply to Sully, what he himself applies to 



