GARDENING UNDER WILLIAM AND MARY 213 
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. 
