Low box hedging surrounded trellised fruit, making a circular ornamental parterre. The Versailles Orangerie is under the flowerbed known as "Parterre du Midi". The spectacular gardens contain the boxwood parterre from the 1870s. The walled gardens have had the original parterre restored. The South Parterre was grassed over in the 1930s. There are three decorative gardens north of the Garden parterre. Brown also grassed over the great parterre and the Great Court. Elaborate flower beds were planted, centred on the south Parterre. The earlier garden included a parterre and kitchen garden. Another group of formal gardens is located on the north side of the water parterre. The garden parterre is still a visible feature of the French garden. It begins at the basin of the Central canal west of the Garden parterre. He preserved the main elements of the Baroque garden (such as the "Grand Parterre"). Orkney referred to the garden as his "Quaker parterre" because of its simplicity. A typical 19th century 3-part estate landscape of park, parterre and pleasure grounds.