size. There are no other flowers. Here and there 

 are patches of ground made clear from the cover, 

 and these are either carelessly planted with some 

 common and useful vegetable, or else are left free 

 to the wayward ways of nature, and bear rank weeds, 

 moist-looking and cool to your eyes, and freshening 

 the sense with their earthy and bitter fragrance. 



Alexander William Kinglake. 



"La Petite Trianon" 



It contains about lOO acres, disp'osed in the taste 

 of what we read of in books of Chinese gardening, 

 whence it is supposed the English style was taken. 

 * * * It is not easy to conceive anything that art 

 can introduce in a garden that is not here ; woods, 

 rocks, lawns, lakes, rivers, islands, cascades, grottos, 

 walks, temples, and even villages. There are parts 

 of the design very pretty, and well executed. The 

 only fault is too much crowding ; which has led to 

 another, that of cutting the lawn by too many gravel 

 walks, an error to be seen in almost every garden I 

 have met with in France. But the glory of La 

 Petite Trianon is the exotic trees and shrubs. The 

 world has been successfully rifled to decorate it. 

 Here are curious and beautiful ones to please the 

 eye of ignorance ; and to exercise the memory of 

 science. ^^,^^^ y^^„^^ 



In the royal ordering of gardens there ought to 

 be gardens for all the months of the year. 



Francis Bacon [Lord Verulam). 



A Royal "Herbere" 



Now there was made fast by the tower wall 

 A garden fair, and in the corners set 



An herbere green, with wands so long and small 

 Railed all about ; and so with trees close set 



Was all the place, and hawthorn hedges knit 



