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I+O THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND vi.
lege, near Oxford, there is a Jong bowling-alley,
probably of the same date as the original house—
about the middle of the eighteenth century. At
Stratford-on-Avon there exists a square bowling-
green in excellent order, where, on the long
summer evenings, the game is still played with
much gravity and science. The object of a
bowling-green as a playing-ground was never
lost sight of in England. London and Wise
mention that a custom had been introduced of
planting tall trees round public bowling-greens
" rather to pleasure their customers than for
any advantage to their greens"; but the green
itself was always kept open. From England
bowling-greens were introduced into France,
probably by Le Notre. The French called
them bo ulingrins, and quite lost sight of
their original purpose, for they made them of
all shapes and sizes, and as often as not put
a statue or a fountain in the middle of the
grass. In the French system the boulingrin
only differed from the parterre in that the latter
was planted round with shrubs only, while
boulingrins were planted with trees—such
as elms, horse-chestnuts, and acacias (James).
In James's translation, boulingrins are defined
as " hollow sinkings and slopes of Turf, which
are practised either in the middle of very large
grass walks and green plots, or in a grove,
and sometimes in the middle of a parterre,
after ' the English mode.' It is nothing but
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lege, near Oxford, there is a Jong bowling-alley,
probably of the same date as the original house—
about the middle of the eighteenth century. At
Stratford-on-Avon there exists a square bowling-
green in excellent order, where, on the long
summer evenings, the game is still played with
much gravity and science. The object of a
bowling-green as a playing-ground was never
lost sight of in England. London and Wise
mention that a custom had been introduced of
planting tall trees round public bowling-greens
" rather to pleasure their customers than for
any advantage to their greens"; but the green
itself was always kept open. From England
bowling-greens were introduced into France,
probably by Le Notre. The French called
them bo ulingrins, and quite lost sight of
their original purpose, for they made them of
all shapes and sizes, and as often as not put
a statue or a fountain in the middle of the
grass. In the French system the boulingrin
only differed from the parterre in that the latter
was planted round with shrubs only, while
boulingrins were planted with trees—such
as elms, horse-chestnuts, and acacias (James).
In James's translation, boulingrins are defined
as " hollow sinkings and slopes of Turf, which
are practised either in the middle of very large
grass walks and green plots, or in a grove,
and sometimes in the middle of a parterre,
after ' the English mode.' It is nothing but
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