SE VESTEESJH CESTURY. 



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lifted out to adorn the garden during the summer months, 

 but were *' committed betimes into the conser\atorj'." No 

 garden was complete without its " collection of choice greens/' 

 Already in the time of Charles I. there existed several orangeries. 

 At Wimbledon, the favourite resort of Henrietta Maria, was 

 one of the finest examples. The orange garden was laid out 

 '■ in four knots,*' bordered with box, and turfed squares with 



ORAN'GERIE AND CANAL, ECSTON. FROM A SKETCH BY EDMOND PRIDEALTt, C. 1716.* 



walks round them. In this the oranges stood out in tubs 

 in the summer time, and there was a garden house in the 

 oranger)-, wh^re the trees, forty-two in number, were stored for 

 the winter. These trees were valued, when the Parliamentary 

 surve\' was made prior to selling the place, at 3^420. The survey 

 of these grounds forms a very complete picture of a garden of 



* In the possession or Charles Glynn Prideaux Brune, Esq. 



