ON WOOD AND PLANTATIONS. 
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and was reflected back by the very trees which lined their 
avenues, and the shrubs which surrounded their houses. 
“ Nonsuch, Theobalds, Greenwich, Hampton Court, Hatfield, 
Moor-Park, Chatsworth, Beaconsfield, Cashiobury, Ham, and 
many another,” says William Howitt, “stood in all that 
stately formality which Henry and Elizabeth admired ; and in 
which our Surrys, Leicesters, Essexes, the splendid nobles 
of the Tudor dynasty, the gay ladies and gallants of Charles 
IP’s court, had walked and talked, — fluttering in glittering 
processions, or flirting in green alleys and bowers of topiary 
work, and amid figures, in lead or stone, fountains, cascades, — 
copper-trees dropping sudden showers on the astonished pas- 
sers under, stately terraces with gilded balustrades, and cu- 
rious quincunx, obelisks, and pyramids ; — fitting objects of 
admiration of those who walked in high heeled shoes, ruffs 
and fardingales, with fan in hand, or in trunk hose and laced 
doublet.” 
Symmetrical uniformity governed, with despotic power, 
even the trees and foliage, in the ancient style. In the 
more simple country residences, the plantations were al- 
ways arranged in some regular lines or geometrical figures. 
Long parallel rows of trees were planted, for groves and 
avenues, along the principal roads and walks. The greatest 
care was taken to avoid any appearance of irregularity. A 
tree upon one side of the house, was opposed by another 
vis a vis , and a row of trees at the right of the mansion had 
its always accompanying row on the left : or, as Pope in 
his Satire has more rythmically expressed it— 
Grove nods at grove, each alley has its brother, 
And half the platform just reflects the other. 
In the interior of the park, the plantations were generally 
