ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an explanation of how Stephen Switzer, and his colleagues and contemporaries first made what he had called Ichnographia Rustica, or more familiarly Modern Gardening from the mid-1740s, land later landscape gardens. Apart from Grimsthorpe in 1715 there were few gardens which could then be called landscapes. Cassiobury perhaps, Badminton was certainly big enough, and Blenheim, even without a large supporting estate, was also unfinished, possibly. Charles Bridgeman also worked with Wise for a time at Brompton Park, and joined him as his deputy before succeeding him in Crown work as the Royal Gardener in the later 1720s. Cirencester exhibits the very qualities Switzer elaborated in his Ichnographia Rustica, and its plan form looks like the realized version of one of his illustrations. The design history of Cirencester appears to have begun immediately on King George's accession. Switzer acknowledged Orrery's patronage in his dedication of The Practical Fruit Gardener in 1724.