The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . The Queens Seedsmen, and Seedsmen by specialwarrant to the Prince of Wales. READING, LONDON and PARIS. ^-^^--m^. 111V. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, iSSi. A KINGS GARDENER. NO man, beginning his life and ending it asa gardener—though a kings gardener—has ever reaped such a crop of honours andrewards as Andrd le Notre. He servedLouis XIV., the most magnificent of Frenchmonarchs, and he designed and formed half-a-dozen of the most noted of French father of this distinguished gardener filledth
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . The Queens Seedsmen, and Seedsmen by specialwarrant to the Prince of Wales. READING, LONDON and PARIS. ^-^^--m^. 111V. SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, iSSi. A KINGS GARDENER. NO man, beginning his life and ending it asa gardener—though a kings gardener—has ever reaped such a crop of honours andrewards as Andrd le Notre. He servedLouis XIV., the most magnificent of Frenchmonarchs, and he designed and formed half-a-dozen of the most noted of French father of this distinguished gardener filledthe post of superintendent of one of the royalgardens, and he gave his son, with praiseworthyambition, an excellent education, intending himfor an artist. Le Notre would probably havemade an excellent painter, but the kings gar-dens, in esse and in posse, needed him, and fateand fortune bent his desires in the right direc-tion. Having made his mark by the prepara-tion of some good designs at one of the lesserroyal houses, the king, who was then contem-plating the creation of Versailles, entrusted thegardens to Le Notre. The ground was diffi-cult, but the gardener formed his plan and ex-plained it to his
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