OF GARDENS OLD AND NEW 



zen is no sooner proprietor of a couple of yews A virtuoso 

 but he entertains thoughts of erecting them into gardener 

 giants, like those of Guildhall. I know an emi- 

 nent cook, who beautified his country seat with 

 a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see 

 the champion flourishing on horseback at one 

 end of the table, and the queen in perpetual 

 youth at the other. 



For the benefit of all my loving countrymen 

 of this curious taste, I shall here publish a cata- 

 logue of greens to be disposed of by an emi- 

 nent town gardener, who has lately applied to 

 me upon this head. He represents, that for the 

 advancement of a politer sort of ornament in 

 the villas and gardens adjacent to this great city . 

 and in order to distinguish those places from 

 the mere barbarous countries of gross nature, 

 the world stands much in need of a virtuoso 

 gardener who has a turn to sculpture, and is 

 therebycapable of improving upon the ancients 

 of his profession in the imagery of evergreens. 

 My correspondent is arrived to such perfection, 

 that he cuts family pieces of men, women, or 

 children. Any ladies that please may have their 

 own effigies in myrtle, or their husbands' in 

 hornbeam. He is a puritan wag, and never fails 

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