ANTIQUITIES... 
iin it, but the greens are not extra- 
ordinary ; for one of the roofs being, 
made a receptacle for water, over. 
charged with weight, fell down 
last year upon the greens, and made 
a great destruction among the 
trees and pots. In one part of it 
a warren, containing about two 
acres, and very full of coneys, 
though there was but a couyle put 
in.a few years since. There is a 
pond or a mote round about them, 
and on the outside of that a brick 
wall four feet high, both which I 
think will not keep them within 
their compass. There is a- large 
fish-pond lying on the south to a 
“brick wall, which is finely clad 
with philaria. Water brought from 
far in pipes, furnishes his several 
ponds as they want it. 
13. Sir Josiah Child’s plantations 
of walnut and other trees at 
Wansted, are mnch more worth 
seeing than his gardens, which 
are but indifferent. Besides the 
great number of fruit trees he has 
planted in his enclosures with 
great regularity, he has vast number 
of elms, ashes, limes, &c. planted 
in rows on Epping-forest. Before 
his outgate, which is above twelve 
score feet distance from his honse, 
are two large fish-ponds on the 
forest, in the way from his house, 
with tsees on either side lying be- 
twixt them; in the middle of 
either pond is an island betwixt 20 
and 30 yards over; in the middle of 
each a house, the one like the other. 
They are said to be well stocked 
with fish, and so they had need to 
be, if they cost him soool. as it is 
said they did; as also that his plan. 
tations cost twice as much. 
14. Sir Rober¢ Clayton has a 
great plantation at Morden in 
Surrey, ina soil not very benign to 
plants; but with great charge. he 
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forces nature to obey him. His gar. 
dens are big enough, but strangely 
irregular, his chief walk not being 
level, but rising in the middle, and 
falJing much more at one end than 
the other; neither is the wall carried 
by a line either cn the top er sides, 
but runs like an ordinary park wall, 
built as the greund goes; he buiita 
good green-house, but setit so that 
the hills in winter keep the sun 
from it; so that they place their 
greens in a house on higher ground 
not built for that purpose. His 
dwelling-house stands very low, 
surrounded with great hills; and 
yet they have no: water but what 
is forced from a deep well into a 
water-house, whence they are fur- 
nished at pleasure. 
15. The archbishop of Canter- 
bury’s Garden at Lambeth, has lit- 
tle in it but walks, the Jate arch. 
bishop not delighting in one; but 
they are now making it better; 
and they have already made a green. 
house, one of the finest and cost. 
liest about the town. It is of three 
rosms, the middle having a stove 
under it: the foresides of the rooms 
are almost all glass, the roof covered 
with lead the whole part (to adorn 
the building) rising gravel-wise 
higher than the rest; but it is 
placed so near Lambeth church, 
that the sun shines most on it in 
winter after cleven o’clock; a fauit 
owned by the gardener, but not 
thought on by. the contrivers. 
Most of the greens are oranges and 
lemons, which have very large ripe 
fruits on them. 
16. Dr. Uvedale, of Enfield, is 
a great lover of plants, and, hav-- 
ing an extraordinary art in manag- 
ing them, is become master of the 
greatesta nd choicest collection of 
exotic greens that is perhaps any 
where in this land, His greens 
Gg3 take 
