92 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



JAMES Educated at Oxfoj'd ; travelled abroad as agent for first glass manufactory 



HOWELL established in England ; later M.P. and one of the Clerks of the Privy Council 



(i595"i""o)- to Charles /. ; Secretary to British Ambassador in Denjna7'k ; iynprisoned in 



Fleet and released by Cromwell ; Historiographer to Charles II. ; author of 



" Dodonds Grove " and '■'■ Epistolce Ho-Eliancr.''' {Familiar Letters off. H.) 



THE stables (at Lord vSavage's House in Long-Melford) butt 

 upon the Park, which for a cheerful rising Ground, for 

 Groves and Browsings for the Deer, for rivulets of water, may 

 compare with any for its highness in the whole land ; it is 

 opposite to the front of the great House, whence from the 

 Gallery one may see much of the Game when they are a-hunt- 

 ing. Now for the gardening and costly choice Flowers, for 

 Ponds, for stately large Walks, green and gravelly, for Orchards 

 and choice Fruits of all sorts, there are few the like in England : 

 here you have your Bon Cliristiaii Pear, and Berga7not in per- 

 fection, your Muscadel grapes in such plenty, that there are 

 bottles of Wine sent every year to the King; and one Mr 

 Daniel, a worthy Gentleman hard by, who, with him long 

 abroad, makes good store in his Vintage. Truly this House 

 of Long-Melford though it be not so great, yet it is so well 

 compacted and contrived with such dainty conveniences every 

 way, that if you saw the Landskip of it, you would be mightily 

 taken with it, and it would serve for a choice pattern to build 

 and contrive a House by. — iyLetter to Dan. Caldwell., Esq.., 

 2oth May 162 1). 



SIR A Parliamentary Genei-al in the Civil Wars, originally of the same fajnily 



WILLIAM as Edmund Waller the poet. 



WALLER 



(1597- 1668). LIE that walkes with God can never want a good 7valke, and 



* ^ good covipajiy. There is 7to gai-den well contrived., but that 



which hath an EnocKs walk 1 in it. 



How cleanly are these Allies kept? and how o?'derly are the 



Hedges cut, and the Trees pruned and nailed, and not an irregular 



1 " Enoch walked with God 300 years." — Gen. v. 22. 



