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CHAPTER III<br />

THE PARKS AND GARDENS<br />

i. The Medieval garden:the Tudor garden: its remains at <strong>Hampton</strong><br />

<strong>Court</strong>: the Mount garden: the parks. — 2. Elizabeth and<br />

her garden: the symmetrical taste: the decorations: Bacon's<br />

idea of gardens. — 3. The Rebellion a break in English horticulture:Cromwell:Charles<br />

II.:the imitation of Versailles: Le<br />

Notre: Evelyn's description of the gardens: Queen Mary's<br />

bower. — 4. William III.'s changes:his personal interest:the<br />

Royal gardeners: the wilderness: the Maze: Latin poem<br />

thereon:Queen Mary's collection of plants:the oranges: the<br />

gates:suspension of the works on the Queen's death:the new<br />

The gardens<br />

plans: the great Parterre: the Lion gates. — 5.<br />

under George I.: the Frog Walk:the passion for Nature:<br />

Thomson's description of a garden: the changes under the<br />

Landscape gardeners. — 6. The fish and fowl:the great vine:<br />

the characteristicsof the gardens.<br />

I<br />

"God Almighty first planted a garden," says Bacon,<br />

" and, indeed, it is the purest ofhumane pleasures."<br />

If it needs some training of the eye to appreciate<br />

the architecture and the art of <strong>Hampton</strong> <strong>Court</strong>, there<br />

are few visitors indeed who do not enjoy the gardens<br />

and the parks. The exquisite neatness appeals to some,<br />

the brightness, the peace, the variety to others. No<br />

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