GARDEN DESIGN IN THE NETHERLANDS 



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an account of its healing properties, and directions showing how it should 

 be used in sickness. 



The most famous garden designer of the sixteenth century was Jan 

 Vredeman de Vries, the Dutch " Du Cerceau," born at Leeuwarden in 1527. 

 His designs were published in Antwerp in 1583.1 Amongst many books 



A GARDEN DESIGN BY DE VRIES ABOUT 1 585, WITH GREEN ARBOURS AND PARTERRE. 



dealing with architectural design, he published one volume entitled Hor- 

 torum viridariorumque together with many designs for fountains and grottos. 

 His drawings give us almost as great an insight into the chateau life of the 

 period as do those of his famous French contemporary, and taken in conjunc- 



1 Under the title of Hortorum viridariorumque elegantes et multiplicis formae architectonicae, 

 artis normam affabre delineatae a Johanne Vredemanno frisio, Phillipus Gallaeus execudehat Ant- 

 werpiae 1583, 



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