220 LONDON PARKS G? GARDENS 
successfully transformed into a formal garden, with 
trees in tubs and boxes of flowers. 
Some of the squares have finer trees than others, and 
in many a statue is a feature. Originally these statues 
formed the central object towards which the garden 
paths converged, but most of the central statues have 
Winter Garden, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square 
been moved, though in a few, like St. James’s and 
Golden Squares, they are still in the middle. These 
statues were evidently a good deal thought of by 
Londoners, but they did not strike foreigners as very 
good. In one of Mirabeau’s letters he writes in 1784 
from London: “The public monuments in honour of 
Sovereigns, reflect little honour on English Sculpture. 
. . . The Statues of the last Kings, which adorn the 
