. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ate prede-cessor of Le Notre himself; to him is ascribed the inventionof floral embroideries. He is largely responsible for the gar-den schemes at Fontainebleau, and at St. Germain-en-Laye(1595). His work in the Gardens of the Tuileries was, how-ever, totally destroyed by freezing. Andre Mollet, the thirdof the family and son of Claude, became gardener to LouisXIII. He was afterward called by James I to England, wherehis work had a determining influence on the development ofgardening in the United Kin
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ate prede-cessor of Le Notre himself; to him is ascribed the inventionof floral embroideries. He is largely responsible for the gar-den schemes at Fontainebleau, and at St. Germain-en-Laye(1595). His work in the Gardens of the Tuileries was, how-ever, totally destroyed by freezing. Andre Mollet, the thirdof the family and son of Claude, became gardener to LouisXIII. He was afterward called by James I to England, wherehis work had a determining influence on the development ofgardening in the United Kingdom. Bernard Palissy, the same who is better known for hiswork in porcelain, is remembered in gardening annals for acertain fabulous pleasure-ground w^iich was carried out, accord-ing to his unbridled imagination, for Catherine de Medici atChenonceaux, where he completely abandoned himself to hisfancy for rockeries, basins, frogs, turtles, snakes, shell-w^ork,etc. A long dialogue of his on this subject, expatiating onthe beauties of the work, is quoted by Mangin in his interest-ing THE PALACE FROM THE PARK FONTAINEBLEAU 108 European and Japanese Gardens
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