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138 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND vi.
how will you be rapt with delight ? Large
walks, broad and long, close and open like the
Tempe groves in Thessaly raised with gravel
and sand, having seats and banks of camomile,
all this delights the mind, and brings health to
the body." The latest instance of a mount
seems to have been the mount at New Park, in
Surrey, which was laid out at the end of the
seventeenth century, probably by London and
Wise. The mount here was placed in the
extreme upper right-hand corner to overlook
the whole of the garden.
Grass walks have been already referred to in
dealing with paths. Bowling-greens existed in
almost every old English garden of any size.
Borde refers to them, and Markham distin-
guishes between three sorts of bowling-grounds .
(i) The bowling-alley ; (2) "open grounds
of advantage"—that is, bowling-greens with a
fall one way; (3) level bowling-greens. In
Country Contentments (chap, viii.) he says,
"Your flat bowles, being the best for close
allies, your round byazed bowles for open
grounds of advantage, and your round bowles
like a ball for greene swarthes that are plaine
and levell." A terrace or raised walk about
2 feet high often ran round the bowling-
green, as at Cusworth, in Yorkshire. At
Badminton a raised walk ran round two sides
of the green, and at one end was a second
raised alley for skittles. The shape of the
how will you be rapt with delight ? Large
walks, broad and long, close and open like the
Tempe groves in Thessaly raised with gravel
and sand, having seats and banks of camomile,
all this delights the mind, and brings health to
the body." The latest instance of a mount
seems to have been the mount at New Park, in
Surrey, which was laid out at the end of the
seventeenth century, probably by London and
Wise. The mount here was placed in the
extreme upper right-hand corner to overlook
the whole of the garden.
Grass walks have been already referred to in
dealing with paths. Bowling-greens existed in
almost every old English garden of any size.
Borde refers to them, and Markham distin-
guishes between three sorts of bowling-grounds .
(i) The bowling-alley ; (2) "open grounds
of advantage"—that is, bowling-greens with a
fall one way; (3) level bowling-greens. In
Country Contentments (chap, viii.) he says,
"Your flat bowles, being the best for close
allies, your round byazed bowles for open
grounds of advantage, and your round bowles
like a ball for greene swarthes that are plaine
and levell." A terrace or raised walk about
2 feet high often ran round the bowling-
green, as at Cusworth, in Yorkshire. At
Badminton a raised walk ran round two sides
of the green, and at one end was a second
raised alley for skittles. The shape of the