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letter to him, says, " I know nobody that possesses more 

 private happiness than you do in your garden: and yet no 

 man who makes his happiness more publick, by a free com- 

 munication of the art and knowledge of it to others. All 

 that I myself am able yet to do, is only to recommend to 

 mankind the search of that felicity, which you instruct them 

 how to find and to enjoy." The Quarterly Review thus 

 speaks of his Sylva: — "The Sylva remained a beautiful and 

 enduring memorial of his amusements, his occupations, and 

 his studies, his private happiness, and his public virtues. 

 The greater part of the woods, which were raised in conse- 

 quence of Evelyn's writings, have been cut down; the oaks 

 have borne the British flag to seas and countries which were 

 undiscovered when they were planted, and generation after 

 generation has been coffined in the elms. The trees of his 

 age, which may yet be standing, are verging fast toward 

 their decay and dissolution: but his name is fresh in the land, 

 and his reputation, like the trees of an Indian Paradise, 

 exists, and will continue to exist in full strength and beauty, 

 uninjured by the course of time." Mr. Loudon, in his 

 Encycl. of Gardening, thus speaks of him: — " Evelyn is 

 universally allowed to have been one of the wannest friends 

 to improvements in gardening and planting, that has ever 



an ague, died my son Richard, five years and three days old onely, but, at 

 that tender age, a prodigy for witt and understanding; for beauty of body, 

 a very angel; for endowment of mind, of incredible and rare hopes. He 

 was all life, all prettinesse. What shall I say of his frequent pathetical 

 ejaculations uttered of himselfe: Sweete Jesus, save me, deliver me, pardon 

 my sins, let thine angels receive me ! So early knowledge, so much piety 

 and perfection! Such a child I never saw! for such a child 1 blesse God in 

 whose bosome he is!" 



Nanteuil's portrait is prefixed to his Sylva, 1664; and a fine copy of tin- 

 same, by Bartolozzi, is prefixed to Hunter's Sylva. Worlidge engraved a 

 fine portrait of him, prefixed to his Sculptura. Ciaywood engraved bis por- 

 trait for the translation of Lucretius. In Walpolc's Anecdotes is bis por- 

 trait, by Bannerman. 



