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III.
THE FORMAL GARDEN
57
Stockholm m 1651, as Le Jar din de Plaisir,
contintant plusieurs dessins de jardinage, tant
-parterres en Broderie, compartiments de gazon,
Bosquets et autres. On the title-page of
this book Mollet is described as " Maistre des
Jardins de la serenissime Reine de Suede."
The period from the outbreak of the Civil
War to the Restoration is, comparatively speak-
ing, a blank in the history of the arts. Evelyn
records the destruction of part of the gardens
at Nonsuch by the Puritans; writing in 1666,
he says : " There stand in the garden two
handsome stone pyramids, and the avenue
planted with rowes of faire elmes ; but the rest
of these goodly trees both of this and Worcester
Park adjoyning, were felled by those destructive
& avaricious rebels in the late war, which
defaced one of the stateliest seats his Majesty
had." No one did more than Evelyn to
encourage the study of horticulture in England ;
he wrote treatises and translations1 himself, and
induced Worlidge and others to write on the
subject; but though fully alive to the beauty of
a well-designed garden, he paid less attention
to the question of garden design, foreseeing,
perhaps, the chaos which was to follow the inter-
ference of the man of letters in the eighteenth
century. It seems that Evelyn did contemplate a
1 The English Vineyard, 1663 ; Sylva, 1664; Kalendarium Hortense,
1666 ; The French Gardiner, translated by J. £., 1672 ; Of Gardens, by
Rapin, translated by J. E., 1673 ; The Compleat Gardener, De la Quintinye,
translated 1693 ; Directions concerning Melons, 1693.
THE FORMAL GARDEN
57
Stockholm m 1651, as Le Jar din de Plaisir,
contintant plusieurs dessins de jardinage, tant
-parterres en Broderie, compartiments de gazon,
Bosquets et autres. On the title-page of
this book Mollet is described as " Maistre des
Jardins de la serenissime Reine de Suede."
The period from the outbreak of the Civil
War to the Restoration is, comparatively speak-
ing, a blank in the history of the arts. Evelyn
records the destruction of part of the gardens
at Nonsuch by the Puritans; writing in 1666,
he says : " There stand in the garden two
handsome stone pyramids, and the avenue
planted with rowes of faire elmes ; but the rest
of these goodly trees both of this and Worcester
Park adjoyning, were felled by those destructive
& avaricious rebels in the late war, which
defaced one of the stateliest seats his Majesty
had." No one did more than Evelyn to
encourage the study of horticulture in England ;
he wrote treatises and translations1 himself, and
induced Worlidge and others to write on the
subject; but though fully alive to the beauty of
a well-designed garden, he paid less attention
to the question of garden design, foreseeing,
perhaps, the chaos which was to follow the inter-
ference of the man of letters in the eighteenth
century. It seems that Evelyn did contemplate a
1 The English Vineyard, 1663 ; Sylva, 1664; Kalendarium Hortense,
1666 ; The French Gardiner, translated by J. £., 1672 ; Of Gardens, by
Rapin, translated by J. E., 1673 ; The Compleat Gardener, De la Quintinye,
translated 1693 ; Directions concerning Melons, 1693.