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brought into the midst of his garden, and supply's two pretty 

 cascades. In the Parterre are 4 Antique Statues a young 

 Papyrius and his companion a Bacchus, and Diana." 



The same year Lord Percival went into Norfolk and Suffolk. 

 He visited Euston, which he thus describes : " Neither are the 

 gardens as yet considerable, being but young, and his trees not 

 well grown. He has a very fine canal, that confines one side, 

 and at the end of his gravel walk is a large bason with a lake 

 beyond it." 1 And Lord Oxford's place, " Chipman, 3 miles 

 north of Newmarket. The gardens are 50 acres, and have 

 a good deal of variety, a fine bowling-green, very high hedge- 

 rows cut into vistos, long tracts and walks, from which you 

 see several miles into the country through well-grown avenues. 

 There is a canal in the shape of a T 1,000 foot long, and 

 70 broad." This, again, might be a description of the garden 

 still existing at Bramham, or of one of Switzer's plans. Belton 

 is another charming example of a garden of about this date 

 which, although somewhat altered, still retains several features 

 observable on these plans. 



Switzer was a pupil of London and Wise, and avowed himself 

 an admirer of Pope's ideas on gardens. He gives his views 

 fully in The Nobleman's, Gentleman's and Gardener's Recreation, 

 in 1715, published again with additions as Ichnographia Rustica, 

 in 1718, " by which title is meant the general Designing and 

 Distributing of County Seats into gardens woods Parks Pad- 

 docks &c. ; which I therefore call forest, or in more easie stile 

 Rural gardening." Here is a beginning of the end of Formal 

 Gardening. This " Le grand Manier," he goes on to say, is 

 " oppos'd to those crimping, diminutive and wretched Per- 

 formances we every where meet with. . . . The top of these 

 designs being in dipt plants, Flowers, and other trifling Deco- 

 rations ... fit only for little Town gardens, and not for the 

 expansive Tracts of the Country." In another place, 2 he goes 

 still further, and says his work is for the " Embellishment of 

 the whole Estate." The grounds to be " handsomely divided 

 by Avenues and Hedges . . . little walks and purling streams 

 . . . and why is not a level easy walk of gravel or sand shaded 

 over with Trees and running thro' a corn field or Pasture 

 1 See illustration. 2 Edition of 1718. 



