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to Philip Hollman, of Warkworth, in the county of Northamp- 

 ton. The Hollmans were an old county family, and Philip, 

 who died in 1669, seems to have encouraged Meager in his work, 

 as indeed Meager adds he assisted all his " other servants that 

 had any inclination or endeavour to the Practise of Good 

 Husbandry." Meager describes a type of quiet, old-fashioned, 

 " neatly-ordered " gardens, many of which existed throughout 

 England. The quaint view of Netherton, in Devon, is from a 

 sketch made by Edmond Prideaux, about 1712, of a garden of 

 this kind. Coryton Park, 1 in Devonshire, is a good example 

 still existing. It was laid out about 1680, and when alterations 

 were made in 1756, the old garden was left as a kitchen-garden, 

 and is still untouched. The old wall, which divides the upper 

 or new from the lower or older garden, is of a quaint zigzag 

 form ; the simple lines of the rest of the garden might have been 

 taken from Meager's book. A path all round, two large square 

 parterres, two smaller ones, with two corners curved to allow 

 room for a path round a pond and fountain, and across the 

 centre of each plat, a clipped yew-hedge following the same 

 curve, and terminating at the edge of the gravel path with a 

 cypress-tree, two statues, a sundial, and opposite the fountain 

 against the outer wall, an old garden house or orangery — such 

 is the composition of the design. 



This kind of plan was already becoming old-fashioned, and 

 the tendency was to make larger gardens than could be kept up 

 in a formal style. Sir William Temple, in 1685, saw the danger 

 when he wrote : " As to the size of the garden which will perhaps 

 in time grow extravagant among us, I think from four or five to 

 seven acres is as much as any gentleman need design." His 

 own garden at Sheen was not large, but beautifully kept ; of 

 this Evelyn wrote in 1688 : " The wall fruit trees are most 

 exquisitely nail'd and train'd, far better than I ever noted." 

 His " Retreat " later in life in Surrey he called Moor Park after 

 the favourite garden of his youth, Moor Park, in Hertfordshire, 

 which he describes so delightfully, as it was, he says, " the 

 perfectest figure of a garden I ever saw." 2 At the new Moor 



1 Belonging to Rev. Marwood Tucker. 



2 Sir Wm. Temple, Upon the Garden of Epicurus, or of Gardening in 

 the Year 1685, printed in his Miscellaneous Works. 



