50 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 



of his pupils. A celebrated English gardener, con- 

 sidered indeed the best of his time in a practical way, 

 one John Rose, was sent to study at Versailles, and 

 became Royal Gardener to Charles upon his return. 

 So the French ideas were thoroughly in evidence in 

 the new fashions of the Restoration; but because of 

 their magnificence they were not adapted to any but 

 the estates of the nobility. 



Things had to be done on a tremendous scale, ac- 

 cording to Le Notre's conceptions; avenues were 

 longer and larger, trees were doubled in number and 

 planted at greater distance apart along them, walks 

 and terraces were much more imposing, and archi- 

 tectural adornments were everywhere. Statues, tem- 

 ples, fountains, cascades, arbors, seats, trellises, sun- 

 dials were met on every side. Naturally this was not 

 the sort of thing in which a man of only moderate 

 wealth might indulge; yet equally true it is that it 

 was the particular thing towards which all would 

 aspire in such measure as they were able, it being the 

 latest fashion. So Beverly's reference to summer- 

 houses, grottoes and arbors, which he says were in the 

 gardens here, is precisely what we might expect, these 

 being an imitation of the elegancies of those mag- 

 nificent gardens which the King and nobility were 

 building. 



When Dutch William of Orange came to sit on the 



