ANTIQUITIES. 
sand oranges this last year. Theheir 
of the family being but five years 
of age, the trustees take eare of the 
orangery, and this year they builta 
new house over them. ‘There are 
some myrtles growing among them, 
but they look not well for want of 
trimming. The rest of the garden 
is al! out of order, the orangery 
being the gardener’s chief care; 
bat it is capable of being made one 
of the best gardens in England, the 
soil being very agreeable, andaclear 
silver stream running through ir. 
5. Chelsea Physic Garden has 
great variety of plants, both in and 
out of green-houses. ‘Their peren- 
nial green hedges and rows of dif- 
ferent coloured herbs are very pret- 
ty, and so are their banks set with 
shades of herbs, in the Irish stick 
way ; but many plants of the garden 
were not in so good order as might 
be expected, and as would have 
been answerable to other things in 
it. After I had been there, I heard 
that Mr. Watts, the keeper of it, 
was blamed for his negle&, and that 
he would be removed. 
6, My lord Ranelagh’s Garden 
being but lately made, the plants 
are but small ; but the plats, bor- 
ders, and walks, are curiously 
kept and elegantly designed, hav: 
ing the advantage of opening into 
Chelsea College walks. The kit. 
chen gardens there lie very fine, 
with walks and seats, one of which, 
being large and covered, was 
then under the ‘hands of a curious 
painter. The house there is very 
fine within, all the rooms being 
wainscoted with Norway cak, and 
all the chimnies adorned with « “4 V- 
ing, as in the council chamber in 
Chelsea College. 
7. Arlington Garden, being now in 
the hands of my Jord of Devonshire, 
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is a fair plat, with good walks both 
airy and shady. ‘There are six of 
the greatest earthen pots that are 
any where else, being at least two 
feet within over the edge; but 
they stand abroad, and have no. 
thing in them but the tree holy. 
oke, an indifferent plant, which 
grows weli enough in the ground. 
Their green-house is very well, 
and their green-yard excels; but 
their greens were not so bright 
and clean as farther off in the coun- 
try, asif they suffered something 
from the smutty air of the town. 
8. My lord Fauconberg’s Gar. 
den, at Sutton Court, has’ se. 
veral pleasant walks and apart. 
ments in it; but the upper garden 
next the house is too irregu- 
lar, and. the bowling-green too 
little to be recommended. The 
green-house is very well made, but 
ill set. It is divided into’ three 
rooms, and very well furnished with 
good greens ; but it is so placed, 
that the sun shines not on the 
plants in winter when they most 
need its beams, the dwelling. 
house standing betwixt the sun and 
it. The maze or wilderness there 
is very pretty, being all set with 
greens, with a cypress arbour in the 
middle, supported with a well- 
wrought timber frame; of late it 
grows thin at the bottom, by their 
letting the fir-trees grow without 
their reach unclipped. The inclo- 
sure, wired in for white pheasants 
and partridges, is a fine apartment, 
especially in the summer, when 
the bowers of Italian bayes are set 
out, and the timber walks with 
the vines on the side are very fine, 
when the blue pots are on the pe- 
destals on the top of them, and so is 
the fish-pond with the greens at 
the head of it, 
Gge2 9. Sr 
