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Tusser, Markham, the Maison Rustic, Hartlib, Walter Blith, 

 the Philosophical Transactions, and other books, which you 

 know better than my selfe. 



DEHOLD the Disposition and Order of these finer sorts of ANTHONY 

 ^ Apartments, Gardens, Villas ! The kind of Harmony to pnnppR 

 the Eye, from the various Shapes and Colours agreeably mixt, EARL OF 

 and rang'd in Lines, intercrossinsf without confusion, and SHAFTESBUF 

 fortunately co-incident. — K Parterre^ Cypresses, Groves, Wilder- ^^ ^^'^ ^^' 

 nesses. — Statues, here and there, of Virtue^ Fo?'titiide, Te7nper- 

 afice — Heroes-BusiSj Philosophers-Yiitd^d.'s, ; with sutable Mottos 

 and Inscriptions — Solemn Representations of things deeply 

 natural — Caves, Grottos, Rocks — Unis and Obelisks in retir'd 

 places, and dispos'd at proper distances and points of Sight : 

 with all those Symmetrys which silently express a reigning Order, 

 Peace, Harmony, and Beauty ! — But what is there answerable to 

 this, in the MINDS of the Possessors} What Possession or Pro- 

 priety is theirs ? What Co?2Sta7tcy or Security of Enjoyment ? What 

 Peace, what Harjuony WITHIN ? " — Miscellaneous Reflections. 



—'AtsISt^— 



The greatest fi'uit and kitchen gardener who ever lived was bom at Poictiers JEAN DE LA 

 1626; he gave tip sttidy of law to accompany son of M. Tainbonneau {whose QUINTINYE 

 garden he planned and directed) to Italy, to study plaiits ; Diade expe7-i7nents and (1626- 1 700). 

 discoveries on sap of plants. His *' Traite des Jardins Fruitier s et Potagers^' 

 {A?nste?'d. 1690), translated by Evelyn as '* Co7?ipleat Ga7'diner," and abridged 

 by London and Wise, Friend of Louis XIV. and Co7idd. Charles II. offered 

 hi7)i pe7isio7i. He 7)isited E7igla7id twice. Perraidt says his letters were published 

 in Lo7ido7i. He stayed with Evelyn, who had his po7-trait e7igraved for hit^t, 

 a7id Qtd7iti7iye i7npa7'ted to hi7)i his )/iode of ctdtivati7ig 77ielo7is. He was Di7-ecto7-- 

 General of the Kings Fridt a7id Kitche}i Ga7-de7i at Versailles, which he laid ont, 

 coveri7ig thi7'ty ac7'es, of which he gives the pla7i. He7-e the Co7ifreres de Sai7it 

 Fiacre, the Tutelar Saitit of Ho7-tictdturists, still hold their Ga7'de7iers' Lodge. 

 He died \lQO, and Louis XIV. said to his widow, ^ I am as great a stiff erer by 

 his death as you, a7id I despair of ever siipplyiyig his loss. ' His system?! of p7'zi7ti7ig 

 a7id trai7ii7ig wall a7id espalier trees surpassed that of all previous writers. 



T KNOW well enough that all Books of Gardening have usually 

 * begun with a Preface full of the praises given to it, and that 

 consequently it may be thought this ought to begin so too. 



