gq. Sir William Temple being 
lately gone to live in Farnham, 
his garden and green-house at 
West Sheene, where he has lived 
ot late years, are not so well kept 
as they have been, many of his 
orange-trees, and other greens, 
being given to sir John Temple, 
his brother at East Sheene, and 
other gentlemen; but his greens 
that are remaining (being as good 
a-stock as most green-houses have) 
are very fresh and thriving, the 
room they stand in suiting weil with 
them, and being well contrived, 
if it be no. defect in it, that the 
floor is a foot at least within the 
ground, as is also the floor of the 
dwelling-house. He had attempted 
to have orange-trees to grow in the 
ground (as at Beddington), and for 
that purpose had enclosed a square 
of ten feet wide with a low brick 
wall, and sheltered them with 
wood, but they would not no. 
His orange-trees in summer stand 
not in any particular square or 
enclosure, under some shelter, as 
most others do, but are disposed 
on pedestals of Portland stone, at 
equal distance, ona beard over- 
against a south wall, where is his 
best fruit and fairest walk, 
ro. Sir Henry Capell’s Garden 
at Kew has as curious greens, and 
is as well kept, as any about Lon- 
don. His two leniiscus-trees (for 
which he paid forty pounds to Ves. 
prit) are said to be the best in Eng- 
land, not only of their kind, but 
of greens. He has four white striped 
hollies, about four feet above their 
cases, kept round and regular, which 
cost him five pounds a tree. this 
last year; and six laurestinuses he 
has, with Jarge round equal heads, 
which are very flowery and make 
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a fine show. His orange-trees 
about fourteen feet wide, enclosed 
with a timber frame about seven 
feet high, and set with silver firs 
hedge-wise, which are as high as 
the frame, and this to secure them 
from wind and tempest, and some- 
times from the scorching sun. His 
terrace-walk, bare in the middle, 
and grass cn either side, witha 
hedge of rue on one side next alow 
wall, and a row of dwarf trees on 
the other, shews very fine; and so 
do, from thence, his yew hedges, 
with trees cf .the same at equal 
distance, kept in pretty shapes with 
tonsure. His flowers and fruits 
are of the best, for the advantage 
of which two parallel walls, about 
14 feet high, were now raised and 
almost finished. If the ground 
were not a little irregular, it would 
excel in other points as well as in 
furniture. 
11. Sir Stephen Fox’s garden at 
Chiswick, being of but five years 
standing, is brought to great per- 
fection for the time. 
a fair gravel walk betwixt two yew 
hedges, with rounds and spires of 
the same, all under smooth tonsure. 
At the far end of this garden are 
two myrtle hedges that cross the © 
garden; they are about three feet 
high, and covered in winter with 
painted board cases. 
gardens are full of flowers and sal- 
leting, and the walls well clad. 
The green-house is well built, well 
set, and well furnished. 
12. Sir Thomas Cook’s garden 
at Hackney, is very large, and not 
so fine at present, because of his 
intending to be at three thou- 
sand pounds charge with it this 
next summer, as his gardener 
said. There-are two green-houses ) 
in} 
It excels for — 
The other 
