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

5 2 THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS
passage into these airy walks, is out of the two summer-
houses at the end of the first terrace-walk. The
cloister facing the south is covered with vines, and
would have been proper for an orange-house, and the
other for myrtles, or other more common greens; and
had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this
piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as
it is now.
From the middle of this parterre is a descent by
many steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies
between them (covered with lead, and flat) into the
lower garden, which is all fruit-trees ranged about the
several quarters of a wilderness which is very shady ;
the walks here are all green, the grotto embellished
with figures of shell-rockwork, fountains and water-
works. If the hill had not ended with the lower
garden, and the wall were not bounded by a common
way that goes through the park, they might have added
a third quarter of all greens ; but this want is supplied
by a garden on the other side of the house, which is
all of that sort, very wild, shady, and adorned with
rough rockwork and fountains.
This was Moor Park, when I was acquainted with
it, and the sweetest place, 1 think, that I have seen in
my life, either before or since, at home or abroad ;