. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . times of the Stuarts ;but many a fine garden as well as housesuffered at the ruthless hands of theCommonwealth leaders. William, Prince of Orange, brought overDutch ideas of gardening, and it was he whointroduced what was then and has sincebeen termed Dutch gardening. Heintroduced this style of gardening about theRoyal residences, and it was not long beforethe fashion became established and generalthroughout the country. The Dutch land-scape gardeners whom William engagedto carry out his ideas were
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . times of the Stuarts ;but many a fine garden as well as housesuffered at the ruthless hands of theCommonwealth leaders. William, Prince of Orange, brought overDutch ideas of gardening, and it was he whointroduced what was then and has sincebeen termed Dutch gardening. Heintroduced this style of gardening about theRoyal residences, and it was not long beforethe fashion became established and generalthroughout the country. The Dutch land-scape gardeners whom William engagedto carry out his ideas were soon followed bynumerous noteworthy English practitionersin the art, so that during Queen Annes reigna great impetus was given to this Dutchstyle throughout the country, to be followedlater by a school of landscape gardenersopposed to the Dutch ideas of design; andin consequence many of the finest examplesof the Dutch type of gardens were destroyed,to give place to what was termed the natural style, in which formality andstraight lines were replaced by irregu-larity and absence of ^sg Fig. 70.—st. louis exhibition. Sketch of Fountain, with Water Lily basin at either end. [See Supplementary Illustration.] Ernest George & Yeates as architects toreproduce a replica of this building, whichis of red brick and white stone, and 170 feetin length. In the replica at St. Louis ofWrens building, the only departure from theoriginal is the introduction of an enrichedplaster ceiling, such as would be found in ahouse of the period. On the south sideof the building is a stone-paved terrace ofcorresponding size, and on this, no doubt,Royal groups have gathered above thequaint parterres, clipped Yews, fountains,lead statues, and other departed glories ofQueen Annes favourite garden. The workof building the Pavilion was carried out byMessrs. Trollope & Sons, of London. Mr. W. Goldring, Kew, was appointed bythe Royal Commission to design a garden toharmonise in character with the buil
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