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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



a sundial, the fij^ures being planted in box or yew. There 

 is a good example of one after this design at Wentworth 

 Stainborough, which was made in 1732, in which the letters are 

 of box and the style of yew. Loggan's views of Oxford and 

 Cambridge, especially in the plans of New College, Oxford, and 

 Queen's and Pembroke, Cambridge, show good designs of this 

 kind of sundial."^ 



Gardeners from all times have had great difficulties to 

 contend with, in the extirpation of garden pests. Their minds 

 were chiefly exercised in devising schemes for keeping down 



SUNDIAL, EUSTON, WITH THE ARLINGTON ARMS, ABOUT 1G71. 



the moles. When Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to Theobalds, 

 and Lord Burghley prepared a Masque in her honour in May, 

 1591, speeches were recited before her, composed by George 

 Peele, describing the processes of making the garden, and 

 comparing its beauties to the virtues of the Queen. The first 

 speech was that of the " Molecatcher," which began thus : — 

 " I cannot discourse of knots and mazes, sure I am that the 



* Cnjitabrigin and Oxouia illustrata. Dav. Loggan, 1675. A sundial oi 

 this description in box and yew has lately been planted in IMr. Leopold 

 Rothschild's garden at Ascott, near Leighton Buzzard. 



