ANTIQUITIES. 
managing the peach and apricot 
dwarf standards, which, they say, 
supply them plentifully with very 
good fruit, There is a good fish- 
pond in the middle of it, from 
which a broad gravel walk leads to 
the highway, where a fair pair of 
broad gates, with a narrower on 
either side, open at the top to look 
through small bars, well wrought 
and well painted, are a great orna- 
ment to the garden. They have 
orange and lemon trees; but the 
wife and son being the managers 
of the garden (the husband being 
gouty, and not minding it) they 
cannot prevail for a house for them 
other than a barn end. 
23. Captain Forster’s Garden at 
Lambeth has many curiosities in it. 
His green-house is full of fresh and 
flourishing plants, and before it is 
the finest striped holly-hedge that 
perhaps is in England. He has 
many myrtles, not the greatest, 
but of the most fanciful shapes, that 
are any where else. He has a 
framed walk of timber covered with 
vines, which with others, running 
on most of his walls without preju- 
dice to his lower trees, yield hima 
deal of wine. Of flowers he has a 
good choice, and his Virginia and 
other birds inva great variety, with 
his glass hive, add much to the 
pleasure of his garden. 
24. Monsieur Anthony Vesprit 
has a little garden of very choice 
things. His green-house has no very 
great number of plants, but what 
he has are of the best sort, and 
very well ordered. His orange and 
lemon (fruit and tree) are extraor- 
dinary tair, and for lentiscuses and 
Roman bayes he has .choice above 
others. 
25. Ricketts at Hoxton has a 
large ground, and abundantly 
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stocked with all manner of flowers, 
fruit trees, and other garden 
plants, with lime trees, which are 
now much planted ; and, for a sale 
garden, he has a very good green- 
house, and well filled with fresh 
greens; besides which he has 
another room very full of greens 
in pots. He has a greater stock of 
Assyrian thyme than any body else ; 
for besides many pots of it, he has 
beds abroad, with plenty of roots, 
which they cover with mats and 
straw in winter. He sells his 
things with the dearest, and not 
taking due care to have his plants 
prove well, he is supposed to have 
lost much of his custom. 
26. Pearson has not near so large 
a ground as Ricketts (on whom he 
almost joins), and therefore he has 
not so many trees; but of flowers 
he has great choice, and of anemo. 
nies he avers he has the best 
about London, and sells them only 
to gentlemen. He has no green- 
house, yet has abundance of myr- 
tle and striped philareas, with 
oranges and other greens, which 
he keeps safe enough under sheds 
sunk a foot within ground, and 
covered with straw. He has abun. 
dance of cypresses, which at three 
feet high, he sells for four-pence 
a-piece to those that take any 
number. He is moderate in hié 
prices, and accounted very honest 
in his dealing, which gets him much 
chapmanry. 
27. Darby, at Hoxton, has but 
a little garden, but is master of 
several curious greens that other 
sale gardeners want, and which. 
he saves from cold and winter wea» 
ther in green houses of his own 
making. His Fritalaria Crassa (a 
reen) had a flower on it of the 
breadth of half a crown, like an 
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