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who travelled through this kingdom in the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth, does not once mention a garden as appertaining 
either to a caftle or a monaftery: He only fays, “ I ob- 
“ ferved, that the beft fort of flowers and fruits are much 
“ rarer in Ireland than in England, which notwithftanding is 
“ more to be attributed to the mhabitants, than to the ayre*.” 
But it is not to be omitted in the annals of gardening, that in. 
this reign, cherries were firft introduced into Ireland by Sir 
Walter Raleigh, and planted in a garden, ftill exifting, at Affane 
in the county of Waterford; a place equally memorable for 
having given birth, in this kingdom, to cyder, a beverage, 
which, in Philips’ opinion, 
& far furmounts. 
“ Gallic or Latin grapes +.” 
Soon as the Englith had fubdued the martial fpirit of the: 
Irifh, and obtained for themfelves the peaceable enjoyment of the: 
lands which they had won with their reeking fwords, they 
introduced the formal ftyle of gardening, which then, and for 
fome years before, prevailed in England}. Of this ftyle feveral {pe-- 
cimens 
* Ttiner. Part. tik p- 159+ 
+ Cyder. Book i. p. 159. The apple called the red-ftreak was firft brought over from 
Herefordfhire, in the laft century, by a Mr. Reeves, of Torreen in the neighbourhood of. 
Affane, and propagated with great fuccefs in his garden; though Philips fays it 
doth difdain 
“ 
*¢ All other fields,” 
it may be now found in almoft every orchard in this kingdom. 
+ The reader may form. an idea of this ftyle of gardening from Henztner’s defcription of 
Nonfuch. Travels, p. 83. Markham’s Hu/bandman, par. ii. ch. 17. and Britan. Iluf. by 
Knyff, and Kip. 
