Temple, William; Sieveking, Albert Forbes: Upon the gardens of Epicurus: with other XVIIth century garden essays (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908)

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us how the squires and land-owners of Great Britain
interpreted the delights of Parks, Gardens, and
especially Orchards1: and not only in Great Britain,
but at Versailles and throughout Europe—in these
Quincuncial “Forests” of the Louis Quartorzians.
“ Great Parks mapped out and planted for Royal (and
seignorial) amusement: radiations of smooth white roads
from the big quincunxed Palace—(Chateau, Schloss,
Mansion or Manor) and then more radiations along
those wide grassy avenues,—green cuttings, when trees
are close, deep tracks in russet leaves, when they are
thin.”
We may almost generalise the garden-problem in
the first half of the eighteenth century, by saying that
it lay in the embodiment and realisation of the
theoretical Quincuncial Park-Forest expounded by
Sir Thomas Browne and his disciples.
My readers I am sure would not thank me if I
withheld from them the opinions of “ The Garden
of Cyrus” expressed by three Masters of English
letters and criticism, as separate in date, thought,
and expression as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor

1 See Kip’s and Knyff’s copper-plates in “Theatrum
Magna: Britannia:” or Beeverel’s “ Delices de la Grande
Bretagne.”