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Patrick's, Dublin, and the Arch-Deacon of Dublin, to make leafes of 
part of their yards and gardens for fixty years.” 
Tue French and Italian mode of gardening, which had been 
introduced by the Englith, continued to prevail in Ireland until _ 
the arrival of William IJ. when it foon yielded to the Belgic 
ftyle*. Such of his followers as fettled here, indulged their 
pafion for “ trim gardens ;” inftead-of mending, they changed 
the features of Nature, totally regardlefs of this golden precept, 
“ Confult the genius of the place in all.” 
EXTENSIVELY acquainted with the vegetable kingdom, to them 
-we probably owe the introduction. of flowers +. Thefe they dif- 
played 
* Of this ftyle a Specimen was given under his Majefty’s aufpices in his gardens at Chapel- 
izod, which are now a fcene of defolation. Inthe year 1717 an overfeer of thefe gardens was 
-placed on the civil eftablifhment, with a Salary of 1201. per annum. 
+ It will appear from thé following extract from Sir Hans Sloan’s preface to 4 Voyage 
to Madeira, Rarbadoes, St. Chriflopher’s and Famaica, that however great the obligations of the 
lovers of gardening in Ireland may be to the Hugonots, they are not lefs indebted to an ancef- 
‘tor of the prefent Earl of Moira. Speaking of the famples of plants which he brought to 
England from Jamaica, he fays, ‘* amongft other perfons who faw them was Sir Arthur 
«¢ Rawdon, who obferving the great variety of plants I had brought with me, fent over Mr. 
¢¢ James Harlow, a gardener (who had formerly gone to Virginia for Mr. Watts), to bring 
« the plants themfelves alive to him, for his garden at Moyra in Ireland. This Mr. Harlow 
¢¢ performed, and there they grew, and came, many of them, to great perfection. He not only 
“ brought over with him a fhip almoft laden with cafes of trees and herbs, planted and growing 
«¢ in earth, but alfo a great number of famples of them, very well preferved, in paper.” 
While this fheet was in the Prefs, I was informed by the Earl of Moira that Mr. Harlow 
‘built a large ftove at Moira, by order of Sir Arthur Rawdon, for his Jamaican plants. This 
ftove was removed by Sir John Rawdon, his Lordfhip’s father. 
