Part 1 The gardens: the Dutch classical garden - the House of Orange, the Princess's garden and Maurits's garden, interchange with French garden design, Dutch classicism; British gardens following the Restoration, including the Restoration of 1660, St James's, Hampton Court and Greenwich, the Brompton Park partnership; the Dutch Court of William III of Orange, including William's early garden improvements, Mary and Honselaarsdijk, emulating France - Clingendaal, the hunting seat at Het Loo, residence of the King of Great Britain, Zeist, Heemstede and Rozendaal, De Voorst and Middachten; the British gardens of William and Mary, including the royal gardens administration, Hampton Court, Kensington Gardens, the state of the royal gardens in 1696, following the Peace of Ryswijk, finishing Hampton Court, at William's death; perspectives on the Dutch garden, including Celia Fiennes and other observers of English gardens, the topographical artists, Dutch garden style of William's time, Dutch gardens in Britain, the reputation of the Dutch garden - Addison to arts and crafts. Part 2 A tour of the garden: the approach - the axial approach, grid planting, the extended axis, repousse ironwork, avenue trees; the parterre - parterres de broderie and parterres de compartiment, parterres a l'Angloise, parterres de piece coupees pour les fleurs, parterres d'orangerie, fountains and statues, trellis and arbours, pavilions, grottoes; waterworks and waterways - still water canals, pools, rockwork and cascades, jets d'eau, pipework and stopcocks, pumps, hydraulic devices, the waterworks at Het Loo; the bosquet and wilderness - forests and great woods of tall trees, groves opened in compartments, open groves, groves of a middle height with tall hedges, wilderness of fruit trees, woods of evergreens, coppice woods, hardy trees and shrubs available, mazes; exotics, including early introductions, dissemination, hothouses; the flower garden, including tulipomania and the Dutch trade in bulbs, florist and other flowers, what the gardens looked like; the kitchen garden and orchard, including the gardener's year, vegetables, orchards, dwarfs, heat, the hotbed, the pineapple, layout of the kitchen garden and orchard, a modest country house garden. Appendices: the common lime; trees and shrubsd for the bosquet and wilderness; selected list of exotics imported to The Netherlands between 1675 and 1700. (Part contents)
