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Rh "upon pillars of carpenters' work ten foot high and six foot broad," delights him. And he, too, like More, has "in the very middle a fair Mount, with three Ascents, and Alleys enough for four to walk abreast, which I would have to be perfect circles, without any Bulwarks or Imbossments, and the whole Mount to be thirty foot high, and some fine Banquetting House, with some chimnies neatly cast, and without too much glass." And in fountains, too, he was of the same mind as those who planted the gardens of Henry and Elizabeth. "For fountains, they are a great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Froggs." Bacon's garden, though he allows for a "natural wilderness," is formal enough.

III The Tudor methods, growing more elaborate as time went on, seem to have governed the gardeners of the first two Stewarts. The great Rebellion came as a break in the history of English horticulture. Gardens, like images and organs, were sometimes destroyed by Puritan fanaticism. Cromwell, though he resided frequently at Hampton Court, took no special care of the gardens, beyond ordering that the water-supply created by Charles I. in the "New" or "Longford" river should be restored to use. A tract of the time satirises his unpopular proceedings:—"Who will have the fine