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THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



SAMUEL Friend of Milton; son of a Polish Merchant. \^2%. came to Ensrland. 1644, 



HARTLTR • • • • 



i!j ^ \ Milton addressed to him his treatise on Education, he having introduced the 



^ ' ' '' writings of Comenizis. 1646, was pensioned by Parlia77tent for his works on 



Husbayidry. 1655, Evelyn describes a visit to him. 



He wrote many pamphlets on editcation and htisbandry, [inter alia) ' A 



Discourse of Husbandry tised ?'« Brabant and Flanders ' ; ' An Essay for 



Advancement of Husbandry Leai-ning or Propositio7is for errecting a Colledge 



of Htisbandry ' ; ' The Reformed Husband??ian ' ; ' His Legacy ' ; ' Cornu Copia ' 



and ' The Compleat Htisband-man. ' 



A BOUT 50 years ago, about which time Ingenuities first began 

 -'*' to flourish in England \ this Art of Gardening, began to 

 creep into England, into Sandwich, and Surrey, Fulha??i, and 

 other places. 



Some old men in Surrey, where it flourisheth very much at 

 present, report, That they knew the first Gardiners that came 

 into those parts, to plant Cabages, Colleflowers, and to sowe 

 Turneps, Garrets, and Parsnips, to sowe Raith or (early ripe) 

 Rape, Pease, all which at that time were great rarities, we 

 having few, or none in England, but what came from Holland 

 and Ela?iders. These Gardi?iers with much ado procured a 

 plot of good ground, and gave no lesse than 8 pound per 

 Acre; yet the Ge7ttlema?i was not content, fearing they would 

 spoil his ground ; because they did use to dig it. So ignorant 

 were we of Gardening in those dayes. — The Compleat Husband- 

 man (1659.) 



—^AlVVJ— 



ANDRE \ The Gi'and Gardener of the Grand Monarch. 



LEN6TR5 Rueil, created by Richeliezi [or the Boboli gardens at Florence), said to have 



(1612-1700). / suggested the Versailles gai-den to Le Notre ; the Pare de Vaux began his reputa- 



/ tion ; he executed Versailles and Chantilly together for Coiidd ; the terrace at 



__.---^ Fontainebleazi was his design. He worked at the Chateau de Metidoyi for the 



Due de Chartres, at St Cloud for Fo liquet, and for Colbert at the ''Pare de 



Scea^ix, ' 



O AINT SIMON wrote his epitaph :— 



^ " After living 88 years in perfect health, with his intellect 



untouched, and all his judgment and good taste undiminished, he 



^ See Portrait of Le Notre and Illustrations and description of Versailles in 

 Appendix. 



