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garden. A part of the garden has been laid out as a bosquet through which 

 a few alleys have been cut, but these are so narrow that a lady dressed in a 

 stylish farthingale could with difficulty traverse them." 



The Palace of the Loo (v. annexed illus.) had fine formal gardens until the 

 end of the eighteenth century, but these have now all given place to landscape 

 gardens. The palace originally consisted of a central block of buildings with 

 wings, enclosing small square parterres on either side, one known as the King's 

 parterre, or Koningstuin, and the other the Queen's garden, or Koninginnetuin ; 



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THE FOUNTAIN OF VENUS AT HET LOO. 



the latter was a cabinet de verdure, with pleached alleys or tunnels disposed in 

 serpentine winding walks, and in the centre a gilt leaden fountain. The 

 bowling green was surrounded by a low box hedge, and near by was the 

 Doolhof, or Labyrinth. There was a famous orangery that supplied most of 

 the plants to Hampton Court when William HI took up his residence there. 

 From a detailed description of the Loo in 1699, by Dr. W. Harris, we learn 

 that " the hedges are chiefly of Dutch elms, and the avenues of oaks, elms, 

 and limes. The figures into which the trees and shrubs are cut are, for the 



