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as if the point of it were cut off, which grows very well with the 
curious amongst us to a considerable stature. I conceive it was 
first brought over by John Tradescant, under the name of the 
tulip tree (from the likeness of its flowers), but is not, that I 
find, taken notice of in any of our herbals. I wish we had 
more of them.” (Sylva, edit. 1670.) The tulip tree was at 
that time known through all the English settlements by the 
title of poplar. (Hunter’s Evelyn, i. 207.) Hermann says that 
he observed in the park of the Duke of Norfolk, five or six 
miles [Dutch miles] from London [? Deepdene], a tulip tree 
which had been planted there twenty years before, but which 
had never flowered or borne fruit. (Hort. Acad. Lugd. Bat. 
Cat.1687, p.615.) At Say’s Court, Deptford, one of Evelyn’s re- 
sidences, he is said to have had a variety of trees; but Gibson, 
who visited it in 1691, after Evelyn had left it, found only the 
phillyrea and the holly: of the former, Evelyn had four large 
round and smoothly clipped plants, on naked stems; and of the 
latter, a hedge, 40u ft. long, 9 ft. high, and 5 ft, in diameter. 
Evelyn was very proud of this hedge, and mentions it more 
than once in his writings. It was ruined by Peter the Great, 
who, having taken the house at Say’s Court, to be near the 
Deptford dockyards, had himself wheeled through this hedge in 
a wheelbarrow for amusement! Evelyn planted cedars, pines, 
silver firs, ilexes, and walnuts at Wooton, some of which we 
found still remaining there in 1830. Evelyn, however, was more 
anxious to promote the planting of valuable indigenous trees, 
than to introduce foreign ones. 
Gibson, who made a tour through the gardens about London 
in 1691, which was published from his MS. many years after- 
wards in the Archeologia, tells us that he found Sir William 
Temple’s garden, at West Sheen, to excel in orange trees and 
other ‘* greens,” as evergreen shrubs were called at that time: 
Among these “ greens,” Italian bays, laurustinuses, and striped 
hollies were included. Sir Henry Capell is said to have had 
as ** curious greens, in his garden at Kew, as any about London.” 
His two lentiscus trees (Pistacia Lentiscus) for which he paid 
40/. to Versprit, were said to be the best in England. He had 
four white-striped hollies, about 4 feet above their cases, kept 
“round and regular,” which cost him 5. a tree ; and six laurus- 
tinuses, with ‘large, round, equal heads, very flowery and 
showy.” “In the garden of Sir Stephen Fox, at Chiswick 
(which, though only of five years’ standing, is brought to great 
perfection for the time), are two myrtle hedges about 3 ft. high. 
They are protected in winter with cases of boards painted.” 
Sir Josiah Child’s plantations of walnuts and other trees, at 
Wanstead, are said by Gibson to be “ much more worth seeing 
than his gardens, which are but indifferent.” ‘ Captain Foster’s 
