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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.

of Prideaux in Cornwall, when on a tour in Norfolk. The
second view is from a photograph taken in 1894 from as nearly
as possible the same point of view. The lake which covers
seventy acres was made about 1842, and all traces of the stiff
pond have vanished. A pretty example of the early landscape
style is to be found at Gunnersbury, near London.* The original
house, which was built by Inigo Jones or his pupil Webbe, in
1663, for Sir John Maynard, has disappeared. The gardens were


GUNNERSBURY PARK. A TEMPLE IN THE GARDEN.

chiefly laid out by Kent about 1750, and added to by Princess
Amelia, who bought the place in 1761 and spent large sums on the
garden. The wall, some of the temples and a bath summer house
built by her, and an imitation gothic ruin still remain, as well
as many fine timber trees, especially cedars.
By the end of the eighteenth century landscape gardening had
* Belonging to Mr. Leopold Rothschild, and now specially famous for the
fruit-growing under glass, which is carried to great perfection.