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* Lord Fairefax’ houfe. A verye fine hall there is, and a ftately 
“ ftairecafe, and faire dineing room, carrying the proportion of 
“ the hall: Fine garden, and mightye fpatious orchards, and. 
“ they fay they have good ftore of fruite. I obferved on either 
“ fide of this garden there is a dove-houfe placed one oppofite to. 
“ the other in the corner of the garden, and twixt the garden 
“and orchards. A moft convenient place for apricockes, or 
“ fome fuch tender fruite, to be planted againft the dove-houfe 
“ wall, that by the advantage of the heate thereof, they may 
“ be rendered more fruitfull, and come fooner to maturitie : 
“ but this ufe is not made thereof *.” 
Eur in the reign of Charles IJ. we find fome of the clergy of 
the eftablifhed church, content to forego the academic fhade 
and the luxury of pleafure grounds, {oliciting permiffion of 
parliament to turn their gardens to account. Their prayer 
being propitioufly heard, an. act was accordingly ordained, 
enabling Prefentor and Treafurer of the Cathedral Church of St. 
Patrick's, 
* Tr fhould feem from the conclufion: of our traveller’s defcription of Lord Chichefter’s: 
gardens, that the happy invention of the hot-houfe had not yet reached Ireland; at lea{t that it 
had not found its way into his Lordfhip’s improvements. But this is not to be wondered at; for 
Mr. Barrington thinks there was not an hot-houfe in England earlier than the year 1667. 
Archaeol, vol. vii. p. 123. However, if tradition may be relied on, fruit were forced in the 
gardens of Bleffington, in the reign of James Il. Vhefe gardens were laid out by an Englifh 
gentleman, who abandoned his eftate at Byflet in Suffex, to efcape the perfecution of Cromwell. 
But I am confidently affured that the firft pine-apples produced in this kingdom were raifed by 
Bullen, a native of Weftmoreland, who fettled in the vicinity of Dublin in the reign of Queen 
Anne. Of his gardens in New-ftreet fome traces ftill remain. He hada nurfery, confifting 
of four acres, which he held under one Rowe, who had been his predeceffor in that line. He 
was employed, like London and- Wife, by the nobility and gentry, in laying out their 
gardens. 
