A history of gardening in England / by the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil (the Hon. Alicia Amherst).
- Alicia Amherst
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A history of gardening in England / by the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil (the Hon. Alicia Amherst). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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- Found on image 12 / 519… Abbey, from those of the Gardeners’ Company, or of Humphry Repton at a still later date. The most important additions are with regard to the work of Le Notre in this country. For some of this information I am indebted to the help of friends, particu- larly of M. Edouard Andre, Miss Sybil Buxton, and Miss G...
- Found on image 254 / 519…se Tpae“dfr fre“S’” as wel1 as those in other gardening operations. J n de la Quintmye was the most famous French practical gardener at the time that Le Notre was their chief garden designer, and it is known that he came to England, and also 1th Englishmen^ rknk who lated bv ?7SelVeS! t0 horticulture- His w...
- Found on image 255 / 519…ther with canals, waterfalls, and woodland groves, all executed with the utmost symmetry and formality. The prophet of this new school was the famous Le Notre, v ho, with untold sums at his disposal, evolved the wonders of Versailles, and created or transformed most of the magnificent gardens in France. Ther...
- Found on image 255 / 519…l, were earned out under his direction, and also that he laid out the grounds of several country-houses. So long has the statemen o supposed visit of Le Notre to this country been accepted as true that I feel great caution is necessary in casting any doubt on such a time-honoured tradition. In sp.te of <hhg...
- Found on image 256 / 519…arious departments in the Record Office.1 Switzer, a well-known authority of the next generation, writing in 1715, makes no allusion to the coming of Le Notre, although he mentions Perrault, one of his pupils,2 and the visits of De la Quintinye. Only fifteen years after Le Notre’s death Switzer did not know ...
- Found on image 256 / 519…no allusion to the coming of Le Notre, although he mentions Perrault, one of his pupils,2 and the visits of De la Quintinye. Only fifteen years after Le Notre’s death Switzer did not know his name in connection with any English garden, and Cook, the designer of one that was in later times attributed to him, w...
- Found on image 256 / 519… not know his name in connection with any English garden, and Cook, the designer of one that was in later times attributed to him, was “ yet living.” Le Notre was a very conspicuous figure in his day, and in high favour at the French Court, and intimate with most of the noblesse, and his career can be follo...
- Found on image 256 / 519…can be followed very closely, owing to the wealth of memoirs and letters at this period. There seems 1 Historical Manuscripts Report. No reference to Le Notre in any index of any report issued up to 1909. Treasury Books and Papers : Warrant re horses : October 25, 1662, is the only mention of Le Notre. Pell...
- Found on image 256 / 519…ce to Le Notre in any index of any report issued up to 1909. Treasury Books and Papers : Warrant re horses : October 25, 1662, is the only mention of Le Notre. Pell’s Issue Rolls, Exchequer : Various payments to the Mollets, but nothing about Le Notre. Searched April 18, 1661, to April 18 1663. Pell s Issue ...
- Found on image 256 / 519…ant re horses : October 25, 1662, is the only mention of Le Notre. Pell’s Issue Rolls, Exchequer : Various payments to the Mollets, but nothing about Le Notre. Searched April 18, 1661, to April 18 1663. Pell s Issue Books, Exchequer (indexed) : Searched from September 30, 1661, to April 18, 1663. Nothing. Th...
- Found on image 256 / 519… 1661, to April 18 1663. Pell s Issue Books, Exchequer (indexed) : Searched from September 30, 1661, to April 18, 1663. Nothing. There is no grant to Le Notre (or Grillet) on the Patent Rolls. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles II., 1661-1662, 1663- 1664 : No reference to Le Notre. State Papers, Fr...
- Found on image 256 / 519…re is no grant to Le Notre (or Grillet) on the Patent Rolls. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles II., 1661-1662, 1663- 1664 : No reference to Le Notre. State Papers, France, vol. cxvi. (1662) : Nothing. Exchequer (King’s Remembrancer) Miscellanea, No. 227, 1557- 1837 : Abstract of Officers and Appoin...
- Found on image 256 / 519…emembrancer) Miscellanea, No. 227, 1557- 1837 : Abstract of Officers and Appointments (under Offices), No 228 The same (under Names). No reference to Le Notre in either Thorpe’s Exchequer Papers, No. 444 : This could not be searched, as the years 1662-1669 are now missing. Docket Books, Signet Office : 1662...
- Found on image 257 / 519…, 12—2 to be no epoch in his life that is unaccounted for, during which time he could have been in England.1 No exact year has ever been assigned for Le Notre’s stay in England, though some have thought that the “ French Gardeners ” who were “ supervised ” in 1661 included him. In various works on London or o...
- Found on image 257 / 519…supervised ” in 1661 included him. In various works on London or on gar- dening published more than a hundred years later, it is simply recorded that Le Notre laid out St. James’s Park and the other places which are attributed to him, but none of them give any contemporary authority for the statement. One w...
- Found on image 257 / 519…phy in the British Museum by Joseph Gulston, who died in 1786, of “ Foreigners who have visited England,”2 and it gives a short notice of the life of Le Notre, in which it states “ he was in England in the reign of King William. The gardens at Cashiobury, in Hert- fordshire, the seat of the Earl of Essex, we...
- Found on image 257 / 519…s in England in the reign of King William. The gardens at Cashiobury, in Hert- fordshire, the seat of the Earl of Essex, were planted and laid out by Le Notre in the reign of Charles II. . . . He planted St. James and Greenwich Park, no great monuments of his invention.” With regard to Cassiobury, it is kno...
- Found on image 257 / 519… out the grounds. That he was in England in the time of William III. is most unlikely, as appears from MSS. letters which will be quoted, dated 1698. Le Notre was bom in 1613, and died in September, 1700, and was buried in Paris, and that he should have under- taken a fatiguing journey at such an advanced a...
- Found on image 258 / 519…th which sight I was very much pleased.” The warrant in which the reference to the French gardeners occurs, which many writers have concluded to mean Le Notre, runs as follows. It is dated December 10, 1661, and is a warrant creating a certain Adrian May “ to be super- visor of the French gardeners employed ...
- Found on image 258 / 519… St. James’s, and Hampton Court, to examine their bills, accounts, and see that they have due satisfaction, with a salary of £200 a year therefore.”1 Le Notre was a man of very different standing, and had been ennobled by Louis XIV., and would have been entertained and received at Court, and not treated lik...
- Found on image 263 / 519… his father, who had held an honourable one in France, he probably considered him- self quite capable of making his own designs, without appealing to Le Notre. Moreover, it appears from the following interest- ing letters that it was for Greenwich that Charles II. especially desired the services of Le Notre....
- Found on image 263 / 519…Le Notre. Moreover, it appears from the following interest- ing letters that it was for Greenwich that Charles II. especially desired the services of Le Notre. It seemed, when M. Edouard Andre, a few years ago, discovered these fragments among the papers relating to foreign affairs in Paris, that the mystery...
- Found on image 263 / 519…a- 1 I am indebted to the courtesy of M. Edouard Andre for permission to publish these letters, which he found when collecting material for a life of Le Notre, a work not yet completed. 2 There is a “ passport for Mr. Batailler to return to France with Ins baggage ” in the Record Office State Papers, France ...
- Found on image 264 / 519… poor villa, and accept a collation.” His movements at the date are, therefore, well known,1 and it seems likely that, had such a famous personage as Le Notre returned with him from Paris, some mention of the fact would have appeared. Had Le Notre been among the brilliant company from Greenwich that were en...
- Found on image 264 / 519…n,1 and it seems likely that, had such a famous personage as Le Notre returned with him from Paris, some mention of the fact would have appeared. Had Le Notre been among the brilliant company from Greenwich that were entertained by John Evelyn, he could hardly have failed to note the meeting with such a kin...
- Found on image 264 / 519… and Park, but the alterations had been begun before by his predecessor. Sir William Boreman, who rendered his accounts from September, 1661,2 before Le Notre was invited. His accounts are continued to June 10th,3 1662, and show payments for planting trees, mowing, etc., and give the names of persons to who...
- Found on image 264 / 519…ment came to light during the search through the bundles of Treasury papers in the Record Office, which adds to the mystery. It is a warrant to allow Le Notre to ‘ transport ” some horses to France free of duty, and it is dated just at the time that, had he come to 1 Some of his letters are in the British M...
- Found on image 265 / 519…e bills, warrants, and payments between May and October, 1662, were further searched, but without success. It therefore yet remains to be proved that Le Notre was on this side of the Channel, and that the horses were not being sent over to him. If he was here, it is extremely unusual that no record of any e...
- Found on image 265 / 519…y is extant, in which he “ begs that the park may be spared, and that His Majesty will come by Charing Cross.”4 The absence of records with regard to Le Notre 1 Treasury Miscellaneous Warrants, vol. x., p. 137. 2 The next entry is a warrant to “ suffer the servants of \\ alter Mountague, Lord Almoner,” to t...
- Found on image 266 / 519…eriod, and even if Beaumont was from France, and one of the “ French gardeners ” employed at Hampton Court, his work at Levens is not in the stvle of Le Notre. J The further alterations at Hampton Court will be dealt is sakl°to hi Stat® PaPers mention Grillet, who by some people him. COmC Wlth Le N°tre' °r c...
- Found on image 267 / 519…d for with in the next chapter. It is known that they were under- taken for William III. by London and Wise. The records of the private gardens which Le Notre is said to have laid out in conjunction with his friend Grillet supply no better information. At none of the places that his name is connected with, ...
- Found on image 267 / 519… first Duke of Devonshire and George London, for “ the laying out the grounds, their turfing, planting, and gravelling,” but there is no reference to Le Notre or Grillet. Laborde, writing on French gardens in 1808, quotes the garden of a house in Suffolk which he says Le Notre had planted “ during his stay ...
- Found on image 267 / 519…” but there is no reference to Le Notre or Grillet. Laborde, writing on French gardens in 1808, quotes the garden of a house in Suffolk which he says Le Notre had planted “ during his stay in England,” but up to the present I have not been able to trace any place which answers to his description.2 Even if L...
- Found on image 267 / 519…e had planted “ during his stay in England,” but up to the present I have not been able to trace any place which answers to his description.2 Even if Le Notre did not actually come himself to England, it is most probable that he supplied plans to Charles II., and he undoubtedly did so to William III. Some v...
- Found on image 267 / 519…is most probable that he supplied plans to Charles II., and he undoubtedly did so to William III. Some very interesting MSS. letters are extant3 from Le Notre to William Bentinck, Earl of Portland, in which, however, he makes no allusion to any journey to England. In the first, dated June 21st, 1698, 1 At B...
- Found on image 267 / 519… of the oldest in England, although much that is shown in Kips’ view of the grounds has disappeared; but there are no records assigning the design to Le Notre and Grillet. 2 M. Edouard Andre drew my attention to the passage which occurs in a work by Laborde entitled Descriptions des Nouveaux Jardins de la F...
- Found on image 267 / 519…ns des Nouveaux Jardins de la France, Paris, 1808, and runs as follows : “ On voit dans un chateau du comte de Suffolk le plan d’un jardin plante par le Notre pendant son sejour en Angleterre, dans lequel chaque massif est dispose sous la forme d’un regiment, et en porte le nom.” I have searched vainly to d...
- Found on image 267 / 519…bility Brown.” There is nothing definite with regard to the designer. Beeverell, in Les Deltces de la Grande Bretagne, 1707, does not attribute it to Le Notre, although he says Euston had “ Tous les agremens qu’on peut souhaiter comme les eaux, les jardins & les Bois.” It has been suggested to me that Thurlo...
- Found on image 270 / 519… medals. He then begs Portland to give his protection to his nephew, and to enable him to see “ the houses,” and to tell him to write his opinions to Le Notre, who was probably to furnish plans for these places. The nephew was Claude Desgots, who was born about 1655, and died in 1734, and was a favourite pup...
- Found on image 270 / 519…as probably to furnish plans for these places. The nephew was Claude Desgots, who was born about 1655, and died in 1734, and was a favourite pupil of Le Notre, and directed for him the works at Chantilly. He went to England in 1698, and returned to France when his work was finished, “ with praise and present...
- Found on image 270 / 519…illy. He went to England in 1698, and returned to France when his work was finished, “ with praise and presents,” in 1700.1 In the second letter from Le Notre to Portland, dated July nth, 1698, he thanks him for the kindness shown to this nephew, and sa}^s with what pleasure he had heard how much the Earl h...
- Found on image 270 / 519… begs Portland to submit his drawings to the King, and asks that any instructions he might have to give might be ex- plained to his nephew (Desgots). Le Notre ends by hoping he may again have the pleasure of showing the beauties of Ver- sailles, etc., to Portland. There is no word of recollection of any pla...
- Found on image 270 / 519…rtland to William III., the following passage occurs : “ M. Le Nostre me fera un plan pour les jardins projettez a Windsor.”2 It is not known whether Le Notre actually designed anything for Portland himself ; there is no record of his employment at Bulstrode, the Earl’s place in England, or at Zorgoliet, ne...
- Found on image 271 / 519…le et tres obeissant Seruiteur, Le Nostre. des thuillerie[s], Ce Samedy, 2ime Juin, 1698. [Endorsed by the Earl of Portland, Mr. le Nostre, 21 Juyn.] Le Notre to the Earl of Portland. jT, Milors et Monsegneur, Je ne scaurois assez vous remercier de toutes les bontez que vous avez pour moij que vous tesmoign...
- Found on image 272 / 519…neur vostre tre humble et tres obeissant seruiteur Le Nostre. Ce Vendredy, nme Juillet, 1698. [Endorsed by the Earl of Portland, 11 Juillet, ’98. Mr. le Notre.] It is certain that French influence was strong on this side of the Channel, whether Le Notre ever crossed it or not. Any garden made just after the R...
- Found on image 272 / 519…Endorsed by the Earl of Portland, 11 Juillet, ’98. Mr. le Notre.] It is certain that French influence was strong on this side of the Channel, whether Le Notre ever crossed it or not. Any garden made just after the Restoration was an imitation on a small scale of the French style. Lincoln’s Inn, which was mu...
- Found on image 504 / 519…101 Cecil, Sir Thomas, 110 Cedar, 168 Cedars of Lebanon, 216, 217 Chambers, Sir Wm., 246, 283 Chaplets of flowers, 18, 54 Charing, 32 Charles II. and Le Notre, 178 Charlton, 219 Charpentidre, 219 25 Chatsworth, 190, 201, 219 Chaucer, 42-56 Cheere, Henry, 219 Cheere, Sir John, 219 Chelsea Physic Garden, 176, ...
- Found on image 508 / 519… and vases, no, 218 Leasowes, 245, 250 Leeds, 207, 285 Leek, 4, 6, 43 Legislation, 89 Le Joye, garden at Winchester, 15 Lelamour, John, 61 Lemon, 138 Le Notre, 177-194 Lete, Master Nicholas, 148 Lettuce, 4, 65, 66, 161 Levens, 189, 194 Lilies, Scarborough and Guernsey, 267-268 Lily, 55, 174, 273 Lime-trees, ...
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