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ANTIQUITIES. 
A short Account of several Gardens 
near London ; with Remarks on same 
Particulars wherein they excel or 
are deficient, upox a View of them 
in December, 1691.—From the 
Archzologia, Vol. XH. 
1. HAMPTON Court Garden is 
a large plat environed with an iron 
palisadé round about next the 
park, laid all in walks, grass 
plats, and borders. - Next to the 
house, some flat and broad beds 
are set with narrow rows of dwarf 
box, in figures like lace patterns. 
In one of the lesser gardens is a 
Jarge green-house divided into se- 
veral rooms, and all of them with 
stoves under them, and fire to keep 
a continual heat. In these there 
are no orange or lemon trees, or 
myrtles, or any greens, but such 
tender foreign ones that need con- 
tinual warmth. 
2. Kensington Gardens are not 
great, nor abounding with fine 
plants. The orange, lemon, myr- 
tles, and what other trees they had 
there in summer, were all removed 
to Mr. London’s and Mr, Wise’s 
reen-house, at Brompton-park, a 
little mile from them. But the walks 
and grass are laid very fine, and 
they were digging up a plat of four 
or five acres'to enlarge their garden, 
3- Lhe Queen Dowager’s Gar. 
den at Hammersmith has a good 
green-house, with an high ere¢ted 
front to the south, whence the 
roof falls backward. The house is 
well stored with greens of common 
kinds; but the queen not being 
for curious plants or flowers, they 
were not of the most curious 
sorts of greens, and in the gar- 
den there is little of value but 
wall trees; though the gardener 
there, Mons. Herman Van Guine, 
is a man of great skill and industry, 
having raised great numbers of 
orange and lemon trees by inocu. 
lation, with myrtles, Roman bayes, 
and other greens of pretty shapes, 
which he has to dispose of, 
4. Beddington Garden, at pre- 
sent in the hands of the duke of 
Norfolk, but belonging to the fa. 
mily of Carew, has in it the best 
orangery in England. The orange 
and lemon trees there grow in the 
ground, and have done so near 
one hundred years, as the gardener, 
an aged man, said he believed. 
There are a great number of them, 
the house wherein they are being 
above two hundred feet long; 
they are most of them ‘thirteen ~ 
feet high, and very full of fruit, 
the gardener not having taken 
off so many flowers this last summer. 
as usually others do. He said, he 
gathered off them at least ten thou- 
sand 
