348 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
dendrons, which, as the picture shows, stand out with 
brilliant colour in summer against the green background. 
This garden opens into a bowling-green enclosed by 
cut lime trees, and a cool walk for summer shaded by 
pleached lime trees. A seductive broad walk bordered 
with fruit-trees is another feature. This attractive garden 
has been made within the last eighteen years. The con¬ 
ception of it was due to Lord Bute, and the designing 
and carrying out to Mr. Schultz. The other side of 
the house, with a wide terrace and park stretching 
down toward the water, has no special horticultural 
feature, but the formal garden is full of charm, and 
the plants are thriving and trees growing up so fast 
there is no trace of its newness. It only shows how 
much can be done where knowledge and good taste are 
displayed. 
St. James’s Park is still skirted by garden walls— 
Stafford, Clarence, and Marlborough Houses, as well as 
St. James’s Palace, though their gardens are hardly as 
elaborate as those of former years. The garden of that 
Palace delighted the Sieur de la Serre, who accompanied 
Marie de Medicis when she came to pay a visit to 
Henrietta Maria and Charles I. and was lodged in 
St. James’s Palace. After describing the house, “ there 
were, besides,” he writes, “ two grand gardens with 
parterres of different figures, bordered on every side 
by a hedge of box, carefully cultivated by the hands 
of a skilful gardener; and in order to render the 
walks on both sides which enclosed it appear more 
agreeable, all sorts of fine flowers were sowed. . . . 
The other garden, which was adjoining and of the 
same extent, had divers walks, some sanded and others 
grass, but both bordered on each side by an infinity of 
