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History of Garden Art
the eighteenth century, a partnership of Italian architect and French garden artist, for
the French style in building arrived later in Germany than the garden style, and was
never really naturalised. The duke loved magnificence, and he rejoiced in the stir and
bustle that a tribe of foreign artists, French and Italian, brought to his place.
Although the keeping up of the pleasure-grounds at Herrenhausen cost nearly six
thousand dollars in 1679, the year of Duke Ernst Johann's death; and although his
successor, Prince Ernst August, was very angry about the extravagance, it was this very
FIG. 449. HERRENHAUSEN. HANOVER—GENERAL PLAN
successor who extended the garden to double its size, and gave it pretty much the
appearance that it still has (Fig. 449). It is natural to think of the close relationship between
the Hanoverian and French courts, which was kept up in the liveliest way in the corre-
spondence of the gay Princess Sophia of Hanover with her niece Lieselotte, Duchess of
Orleans; and it may easily be believed that as the two ladies took such an interest in
gardens, they shared some direct advice and even plans by Le Notre. The plans were as
formal as any we know, giving the impression of an example in a school-book. There seems
to be a kind of anxiety not to omit any of the rules or injunctions: first there are the fine
parterres with a central fountain, behind them four almost square ponds, then a simpler
parterre with two little pavilions, which have now disappeared. They formed the connection
with the boskets, which were traversed by regular star-arranged paths with tall hedges of
box, and which all had a basin in the centre. There was a very large round pond at the end
History of Garden Art
the eighteenth century, a partnership of Italian architect and French garden artist, for
the French style in building arrived later in Germany than the garden style, and was
never really naturalised. The duke loved magnificence, and he rejoiced in the stir and
bustle that a tribe of foreign artists, French and Italian, brought to his place.
Although the keeping up of the pleasure-grounds at Herrenhausen cost nearly six
thousand dollars in 1679, the year of Duke Ernst Johann's death; and although his
successor, Prince Ernst August, was very angry about the extravagance, it was this very
FIG. 449. HERRENHAUSEN. HANOVER—GENERAL PLAN
successor who extended the garden to double its size, and gave it pretty much the
appearance that it still has (Fig. 449). It is natural to think of the close relationship between
the Hanoverian and French courts, which was kept up in the liveliest way in the corre-
spondence of the gay Princess Sophia of Hanover with her niece Lieselotte, Duchess of
Orleans; and it may easily be believed that as the two ladies took such an interest in
gardens, they shared some direct advice and even plans by Le Notre. The plans were as
formal as any we know, giving the impression of an example in a school-book. There seems
to be a kind of anxiety not to omit any of the rules or injunctions: first there are the fine
parterres with a central fountain, behind them four almost square ponds, then a simpler
parterre with two little pavilions, which have now disappeared. They formed the connection
with the boskets, which were traversed by regular star-arranged paths with tall hedges of
box, and which all had a basin in the centre. There was a very large round pond at the end