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"o THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND m.
both his works are inferior in value to the
Systerna Horticulture, or Art of Gardening, by
J. W., Gent., published in 1677, "illustrated
with sculptures representing the form of gardens
according to the newest models." J. W. is
John Worlidge. His work consists of three
books, and describes the details of the garden
with some minuteness. The shape of the
garden, its general plan, its walls and fences,
its walks and arbours, terraces, seats, pleasure-
houses, fountains and water - works, statues,
obelisks, and dials, are all successively dealt
with, and followed by a systematic treatise on
the flowers and trees with which the gardens
should be planted. Worlidge repeated Rea's
complaint as to the banishment of flowers, and
the excessive use of sculpture in gardens, but
his garden was perfectly formal and did not
depart from the traditional lines in any sense
whatever. No serious change was introduced
under William and Mary, except that the habit
of clipping yew and box-trees was carried to
an excess that made it an easy prey for the
sarcasm of Pope in the following century. The
Dutch were fond of queer little trifles, and used
to cut their trees into every conceivable shape.
Switzer says that " this fashion was brought
over out of Holland by the Dutch gardeners,
who used it to a fault, especially in England,
where we abound in so good grass and gravel " ;
but Switzer is inaccurate here, for the custom
both his works are inferior in value to the
Systerna Horticulture, or Art of Gardening, by
J. W., Gent., published in 1677, "illustrated
with sculptures representing the form of gardens
according to the newest models." J. W. is
John Worlidge. His work consists of three
books, and describes the details of the garden
with some minuteness. The shape of the
garden, its general plan, its walls and fences,
its walks and arbours, terraces, seats, pleasure-
houses, fountains and water - works, statues,
obelisks, and dials, are all successively dealt
with, and followed by a systematic treatise on
the flowers and trees with which the gardens
should be planted. Worlidge repeated Rea's
complaint as to the banishment of flowers, and
the excessive use of sculpture in gardens, but
his garden was perfectly formal and did not
depart from the traditional lines in any sense
whatever. No serious change was introduced
under William and Mary, except that the habit
of clipping yew and box-trees was carried to
an excess that made it an easy prey for the
sarcasm of Pope in the following century. The
Dutch were fond of queer little trifles, and used
to cut their trees into every conceivable shape.
Switzer says that " this fashion was brought
over out of Holland by the Dutch gardeners,
who used it to a fault, especially in England,
where we abound in so good grass and gravel " ;
but Switzer is inaccurate here, for the custom