Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments (1922)
Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green · leaf 205
s of chil-dren, not to mention a fair sprinkling of their elders. The circular Troy-town or Plan-de-Troy, formedof tall espaliers, which formerly co-existed with thepresent maze (see Fig. 112), has long been replaced by asunken rockery, the path of which, however, is of a very K 129 meandering… … Fig. 112.—Hampton Court. The Wilderness, with Maze and Plan- de-Troy, in Eighteenth Century. (Engraving by J. Rocque,1736.) said to have been a verdant representation of militarydefence works, cut yew and variegated holly beingtaught, as Walpole says, to imitate the lines, angles,bastions, scarps…
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