324 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
The 
Wilder¬ 
ness. 
The 
Higher 
Level. 
Private 
Walk. 
Shadow 
houses. 
[Lime 
trees and 
Elms.] 
Cypress 
trees. 
Cherry 
trees. 
gravelled alley in or near the middle of the said turfed tarras, sets 
forth the Maze to lie towards the east, and the Wilderness towards 
the west. The Maze consists of young trees, wood[s], and sprays 
of a good growth and height, cut out into several meanders, circles, 
semicircles, windings, and intricate turnings, the walks or intervals 
whereof are all grass plots. This Maze, as it is now ordered, adds 
very much to the worth of the Upper Level. The Wilderness (a 
work of a vast expense to the maker thereof) consists of many 
young trees, woods, and sprays of a good growth and height, cut 
and formed into several ovals, squares, and angles, very well 
ordered ; in most of the angular points whereof, as also in the 
centre of every oval, stands one Lime tree or Elm. All the alleys 
of this wilderness, being in number eighteen, are of a gravelled 
earth, very well ordered and maintained; the whole work being 
compiled with such order and decency, as that it is not one of 
the least of the ornaments of the said Manor or Mansion House. 
The foresaid alley dividing the said Maze and Wilderness is 
planted on each side thereof with Lime trees and Elms, betwixt 
every tree whereof grows a Cypress tree ; at the south end of 
which alley, and in the wall that parts the said Upper Garden 
from the Vineyard Garden, betwixt two fair pillars of brick, there 
are set fair and large pair of railed gates, of good ornament to 
both the said gardens. On the South side of the said Maze and 
Wilderness there is one close or private gravelled walk, inclosed 
on each side thereof with a very high and well grown hedge of 
thorn, extending itself from the East wall to the West wall of the 
said Upper Garden ; at each end of which close walk there stands 
one little shadow or summer house, covered with blue slate and 
ridged with lead, and fitted for resting places. Which Maze and 
Wilderness, over and besides the trees thereof, which are herein 
hereafter valued amongst the other trees of the Upper Garden, and 
the materials of the said two shadow or summer houses, we 
value to be worth £90. 
There are in the said Upper Garden one hundred thirty one 
Lime trees and sixty eight elms, of good growths, worth in the 
gross at £44. 13s. 
There are in the said higher and lower level of the said Upper 
Garden one hundred twenty three Cypress trees of divers growths, 
which, although they are not of any great profit, yet, as they are 
now planted, they exceedingly adorn and set forth the said upper 
garden, which trees, one with another, we value to be worth in 
the whole £30. 15s. 
There are also in the said higher and lower level an hundred 
and nineteen Cherry trees, well planted and ordered, and 
of a great growth in themselves, the fruit whereof cannot but 
