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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



tion with the translation of Charles Estienne enable us to form a very com- 

 plete idea of the gardens of that time. Here we see ladies being rowed in 

 gaily-painted barges and luncheon served in richly decorated arbours, amidst 

 the garden parterres. Even the bleaching ground is not forgotten " where 

 should stand nothing but green grass or herbs and the fountain in the centre 

 or with some platane or lime trees, the branches of which have been led 



A DUTCH GARDEN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 



and shaped to a bower, as may be seen at Basel and elsewhere, serving as an 

 amusement to the Lady and her guests." In his engravings De Vries divides 

 garden designs into various styles named after the orders of Architecture. 



Though it is probable that few gardens were actually laid out from the 

 designs of Vredeman de Vries, yet they set the style which was generally 

 followed. This new Dutch style was largely followed both in England and 

 in Germany. 



For many years the region in which the principal chateaux of the Nether- 



