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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



THE ORANGERY AT GUNTERSTEIN. 



treatise on garden 

 craft. The quaint 

 illustrations of 

 Ryswyck, Hons- 

 holredyk and the 

 Huis 'ten Bosch 

 near The Hague 

 show these gar- 

 dens before they 

 had been re- 

 modelled on 

 French lines. Van 

 de Groen gives a 

 dissertation on 

 country life in 

 general, on foun- 

 tains, the culti- 

 vation of flowers, 

 trees, vines, and oranges. He deals with the laying out of simple parterres 

 and the construction of treillage, which he illustrates by a quaint collection of 

 designs for pyramids, doorways, galleries, and arbours. Finally, he instructs 

 his readers on dials, and illustrates a curious example laid out upon the 

 ground, its gnomon formed by a tree and the figures cut out in box. 



A more elaborate work appeared 

 in 1676, entitled De Koninglycke 

 Hov enter (The Royal Gardener), with a 

 variety of more extensive parterres. 

 This work was in great repute in Eng- 

 land, and no doubt many of our best 

 gardens were laid out from its designs. 

 It consists of two parts, the first 

 devoted to fruits and flowers, and the 

 second to garden design. 



There was a great similarity be- 

 tween the Dutch house of the late 

 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a seventeenth-century orange tub. 



