78 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND iv.

disparaging terms of London's power as a
designer. Both London and Wise seem to have
been taken by the Dutch manner, though
London, at any rate, had seen the great French
gardens, and in his design for the gardens of
Melbourne, 1704, he was much more influenced
by French than by Dutch examples. In 1706
London and Wise published The Retired
Gardner, a translation from Le Jardinier
Solitaire, and a treatise of the Sieur Louis

Liger of Auxerre, with
corrections by the trans-
lators. The only sub-
stantial addition which
London and Wise made

Fig. 16.—From London and Wise. tO this book Was a

description of the garden laid out by them for
Marshall Tallard 1 at Nottingham. London died
in 1713. He lived just long enough to see
all the boxwork at Hampton Court, which he
had planted for William, pulled up by Queen
Anne.

Another translation from the French appeared
in 1712, entitled The Theory and Practice of
Gardening, done from the French Original, by
John "James of Greenwich. It is not known
who wrote the original. It has been attributed
both to D'Argenville Dezalliers and to Le
Blond, pupils of Le Notre. Le Blond seems the
more probable author. James does not appear

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