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64 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND in.
court, with stables and outhouses ; at the back
of the house the kitchen and fruit-gardens and
the pigeon-house. To the left of the house
and fore court were the bowling-green and
pleasure-gardens, with the grove beyond. The
latter was divided into four plots, with four-
way paths and a circular space and fountain
in the centre. Each of the plots was planted
with close-growing trees laid out as mazes,
and trimmed close and square for a height
apparently of some 15 to 20 feet from
the ground. Opposite the centre alley was a
semicircular bay divided into quadrants, each
quadrant with a basin and fountain and great
square hedges trimmed to the same height as
the rest of the grove. The whole of these
immense gardens were walled in, with the
exception of a fence round the grove. Wide
gates were set at the ends of all the main paths,
and from these, as points of departure, avenues
were laid out in straight lines, radiating and
intersecting each other in all directions. If
Kip's figures are correct, some of these avenues,
which extended beyond the park to the villages
in the adjacent country, were 6 or 7 miles
long. As shown on plans these avenues look
bizarre and unattractive, but in actual fact —
that is, when the trees are fully grown—their
effect is very fine. And here, again, the straight-
forwardness, or what one might call the honesty
of the formal method is clearly shown. If a
court, with stables and outhouses ; at the back
of the house the kitchen and fruit-gardens and
the pigeon-house. To the left of the house
and fore court were the bowling-green and
pleasure-gardens, with the grove beyond. The
latter was divided into four plots, with four-
way paths and a circular space and fountain
in the centre. Each of the plots was planted
with close-growing trees laid out as mazes,
and trimmed close and square for a height
apparently of some 15 to 20 feet from
the ground. Opposite the centre alley was a
semicircular bay divided into quadrants, each
quadrant with a basin and fountain and great
square hedges trimmed to the same height as
the rest of the grove. The whole of these
immense gardens were walled in, with the
exception of a fence round the grove. Wide
gates were set at the ends of all the main paths,
and from these, as points of departure, avenues
were laid out in straight lines, radiating and
intersecting each other in all directions. If
Kip's figures are correct, some of these avenues,
which extended beyond the park to the villages
in the adjacent country, were 6 or 7 miles
long. As shown on plans these avenues look
bizarre and unattractive, but in actual fact —
that is, when the trees are fully grown—their
effect is very fine. And here, again, the straight-
forwardness, or what one might call the honesty
of the formal method is clearly shown. If a