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nurseries of Haarlem and from Vitry-sur-Selne and most of the pome- 

 granate, lemon and orange trees were despatched to Mannheim. 



The Palace of Herrenhausen (illus., opposite) lies about i-i- miles from 

 Hanover, being connected with it by a beautiful avenue of limes, known as the 

 Herrenhausen Allee, which is believed to have been laid out by Le Notre. 

 It was made the summer residence of Hanoverian royalty in 1665, when the 

 Duke John Frederick began the broad low building that was designed by 



THE GARDEN THEATRE AT MIRABELL. 



an Italian, Quirini. The following year saw the commencement of the superb 

 gardens, which are also said to have been designed by Le Notre. The proba- 

 bility is, however, that he only made the designs on paper and that the gar- 

 dens were laid out by another Frenchman, Charbonnier, with his son. The 

 plan very closely resembles a design for an imaginary garden by Andre MoUet, 

 which is illustrated and described in that author's work, Le Jardin de Plaisir. 

 The gardens were enlarged in 1692 and then comprised a large square Lust- 

 stuck, or arrangement of parterres, bounded upon three sides by a broad moat, 



