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dients of Pîînys correfponded exa5ily ivith thofe laid ouf by 

 London and JVife on Dutch principles. He talks of Jlopes, 

 terrajfesj a wilderne/st firubs methodicalîy trimmed, a mar- 

 ble bajon, * pipes fpouti?ig water, a cafcade falli'ng Info the 

 baforiy bay-treeSi alternately planted ivith pLines, and a Jîrait 

 walk, from ivhence ijfued others parted off by hedges of box, 

 and apple-trees, ivith obelijks placed between every two, 'Thers 

 wants nothing but the embroidery of a parterrey ta make a 

 garden in the reign of Trajan ferve for a defcription of 

 one in that of king William, -f In one pajfage above Pli?iy 



feems 



♦ The Englijh gardens defcribed by Hentzner in the reign of Eli-z.ahethy are 

 txa£î copies of thofe of Pliny. In that at iVlùtehall was a Jun-dial and jet-d'eauy 

 vjhich en turning a cock fpurted oui zvater and Jprinkled the fpeâïators. In 

 lord BurUlgh's at Theobalds were cbeïifhsy pyramidi^ and circular porticos, 

 with cifîerm of lead for hathing. At Hampton-court the garden-tvaJls were 

 covered with rofemary^ a cuftomy he faysy very common in England. At TheO' 

 talds ivas a labyrinth alfo, an ingenuity J Jhall mention prefently io hâve heen 

 fréquent in that âge. 



+ Dr. Ploti in his natural hijïory of Oxfordjhire^ p. 380, feems to hâve 

 betn a grtat admirer of trees carvtd into the mo/i heterogeneous forms, whicb 



