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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



or pleasure garden, was divided from the chateau by a ditch and again from 

 the orchards and more utilitarian gardens by a high buttressed wall. The 

 pleasure garden was divided by great gaieties de charpenterie, elaborate and 

 massive architectural constructions, which were probably intended to be 

 covered with plants. 



As yet flowers were seldom grown in gardens for decorative purposes, 

 and it will be found that their cultivation for these purposes, without regard 

 to their medicinal uses, was very much neglected. The famous gardens of 

 Vauquelin des Yveteaux in the neighbourhood of Paris are said to have con- 

 tained more melons than tulips and more cabbages than hyacinths. 



The galleries surrounding the great parterre at Anet were of considerable 

 architectural pretensions ; they were vaulted, and lighted by large open 



A WOODEN GALLERY AT MONTARGIS, FROM DU CERCEAU. 



windows decorated with rusticated pilasters ; the windows had pediments, 

 and the floor was paved with a pattern of cut stone and brick. The great 

 parterre in the middle was divided into twenty-four large unequal squares, 

 some laid out in regular geometric patterns, others of grass, box and aromatic 

 plants. Two square pavilions occupied the angles of the gallery and over- 

 looked the deer park ; they were designed by Philibert de I'Orme. " I have had 

 made," says De I'Orme, " in the Chateau d'Anet for Madame la Duchesse de 

 Valentinois two little pavilions overlooking the park where may be put the 

 players of cornets and trumpets and other instruments to give pleasure to 

 the King and to the Princes." The gardens were celebrated for their wonder- 

 ful collection of plants formed under the supervision of the famous gardener 

 Mollet — the first of the great family of French gardeners — ^who by purchase 

 and exchange brought together an immense variety of the rarest plants of 



