Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

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HAMPTON COURT
now been planted a hundred and twenty-eight years,
and though not uniquely large, is certainly respectable
for its age and dignity. It may be seen in its own
great house near the south-west corner of the Palace,
beyond the " Pond Garden."
Much more might be said about the parks, so
skilfully designed, and yet so free from offensive artificiality
— the long terrace that looks upon the Thames,
the bowling-green, and the shady walks under the
limes that skirt the canal. But it would take a book
to describe the gardens for those who do not know
them, and still more, it may be, for those who do.
Their attraction lies in the combination of the styles
of different periods — of which they present the beauties
of each — in the continuity of their history, and in
the happy examples which they afford of the history
of horticulture in England. We may still walk in
fancy with Henry VIII. in the Pond Garden, with
Charles II. by the Long Water, and with William III.
along the Broad Walk.