CHAPTER XVIII 
GARDEN FURNISHINGS 
€t Furnished with whatever may make the place agreeable, mel- 
ancholy, and country-like / 9 
- — Forest Trees, John Evelyn, 1670. 
UAINT old books of garden de- 
O 
signers show us that much more 
was contained in a garden two 
centuries ago, than now ; it had 
many more adjuncts, more furnish- 
ings ; a very full list of them has 
been given by Batty Langley in 
his New Principles of Gardening , 
etc., 1728. Some seem amusing — as haystacks and 
woodpiles, which he terms “ rural enrichments.” Of 
water adornments there were to be purling streams, 
basins, canals, fountains, cascades, cold baths. There 
were to be aviaries, hare warrens, pheasant grounds, 
partridge grounds, dove-cotes, beehives, deer pad- 
docks, sheep walks, cow pastures, and “ manazeries ” 
(menageries ?) ; physic gardens, orchards, bowling- 
greens, hop gardens, orangeries, melon grounds, 
vineyards, parterres, fruit yards, nurseries, sun-dials, 
obelisks, statues, cabinets, etc., decorated the garden 
walks. There were to be land gradings of mounts, 
winding valleys, dales, terraces, slopes, borders, open 
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