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GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
Protector, it is highly probable that he had all along been his 
adviser as to the designing and planting of the grounds at Isle- 
worth. According to a map extant a few years ago, there were 
large walled gardens on the east and west sides; the wall was con- 
tinued along the south side, and in the angle where the walls 
met was a high triangular terrace, doubtless erected for the enjoy- 
ment of the fine river views thence obtainable, but which, when 
the unfortunate Lord Protector was attainted for high treason, 
was declared by his enemies to be a fortification. A mound of 
irregular shape on the south-east side of the house, now planted 
with cedars, is by some people supposed to mark the site of this 
platform or terrace. 
Queen Anne, when Princess of Denmark, made Sion her 
temporary residence, and it is probable that the fashions in garden- 
planning and floriculture prevailing under William and Mary, 
and to a much later period, were for a time followed here, as at 
Hampton Court. They were fashions against which, as we know, 
Addison inveighed, and that Pope ridiculed when he wrote : 
Dara wear ean BB each Alley hath a brother, 
And half the garden just repeats the other.” 
But whether or not London and Wise, gardeners, as mentioned 
in an earlier chapter, to William III. and to Queen Anne, had 
anything to do with the gardens at Sion, does not appear. A print 
by H. Bush, dated 1737, and reproduced in Walford’s ‘“‘ Greater 
London,” certainly looks as though they had. The pictured 
garden is stiff enough to have rejoiced the heart of William of 
Orange—and probably also of George II., who, because its long, 
narrow street reminded him of his native Hanover, is said to have 
been so fond of Brentford that his coachman had orders to drive 
slowly when he passed through the High Street, so that he might 
enjoy its beauties. Bush’s print shows a large garden between 
the house and the river, bounded on the east by a wall with a 
water-gate midway, and on the north and south by high hedges, 
probably of yew. The wall is carried on diagonally in such a 
fashion as to enclose a second garden, triangular in shape, and 
intersected geometrically, in true Dutch fashion, with formal 
walks. 
Colonel Balfour thought that these walls and hedges may quite 
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