50 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
of his pupils. A celebrated English gardener, con¬ 
sidered indeed the best of his time in a practical way, 
one John Rose, was sent to study at Versailles, and 
became Royal Gardener to Charles upon his return. 
So the French ideas were thoroughly in evidence in 
the new fashions of the Restoration; but because of 
their magnificence they were not adapted to any but 
the estates of the nobility. 
Things had to be done on a tremendous scale, ac¬ 
cording to Le Notre’s conceptions; avenues were 
longer and larger, trees were doubled in number and 
planted at greater distance apart along them, walks 
and terraces were much more imposing, and archi¬ 
tectural adornments were everywhere. Statues, tem¬ 
ples, fountains, cascades, arbors, seats, trellises, sun¬ 
dials were met on every side. Naturally this was not 
the sort of thing in which a man of only moderate 
wealth might indulge; yet equally true it is that it 
was the particular thing towards which all would 
aspire in such measure as they were able, it being the 
latest fashion. So Beverly’s reference to summer¬ 
houses, grottoes and arbors, which he says were in the 
gardens here, is precisely what we might expect, these 
being an imitation of the elegancies of those mag¬ 
nificent gardens which the King and nobility were 
building. 
When Dutch William of Orange came to sit on the 
