ENGLISH GARDENS OF i6th, 17TH AND i8th CENTURIES 207 



the Parliamentar)^ Survey of 1650 as having " nine compleat squares or 

 knotts lyinge upon a levell in ye middle of ye garden whereof one is sett 

 forth with box borders in ye likenesse of ye Kinges arms ; one other plott 

 is planted with 

 choice flowers ; 

 the other seven 

 knotts are all 

 grass knotts 

 handsomely 

 turfed, a quick- 

 sett hedge of 

 white Thorne 

 and Privett cut 

 into a handsome 

 fashion at every 

 angle;" 



The Eliza- 

 Jbethan garden 

 combined' much 

 of what was best 

 in the older Eng- 

 lish garden, with 

 jthe new fashions 

 which travelled 

 country gentle- 

 men were begin- 

 ning to intro- 

 duce from Italy, 

 France, and the 

 Netherlands. 

 Although the 

 designs of these 

 countries were 



copied, the men employed to carry them out were generally English, and 

 we do not find any evidence of foreigners being employed in England until 

 the beginning of the seventeenth century. 



ST. John's college, oxford, about 1733. 



