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seventeenth century has already been noticed. The floral 

 coats of arms and the mountain with walks are clearly shown 

 in Loggan's print of 1675, an ^ the general impression of 

 twenty years later is thus given by Celia Fiennes : 



Ye Garden was new makeing, there is a large bason of water. In the 

 Middle there is little walkes and mazes, and round mounts for the schollars 

 to divert themselves . . . and here they may Live very Neatly and well 

 if Sober, and have all their Curiosityes they take much delight in, 

 greens of all sorts, Myrtle, oringe and Lemons and Lorrestine growing in 

 potts of Earth, and so moved about from place to place and into the aire 

 sometymes. There are severall New Lodgings added and beautifyed here, 

 the Gardens also w th gravell and Grass walkes, some shady and a great 

 Mount in the Middle w ch is ascended by Degrees in a round of Green 

 paths deffended by greens cut Low, and on y e top is a summer house. 

 Beyond these Gardens is a bowling-green, and round it a Close shady 

 walke, walled round and a Cutt hedge to the bowling-green. 



The garden owes much to the old Town Wall, but much, 

 too, to its noble trees. The two large Elms girth 15 ft. 4 in. 

 and 13 ft. 3 in. respectively; the Tulip Tree has a trunk- 

 girth of 5 ft. 6 in. ; the largest Horse-chestnut, 12 ft. 7 in. ; and 

 the Copper Beech, 8 ft. i in. 



When New College was visited by " H. E." in the summer 

 of 1887, the fine Limes had not yet burst into blossom, and, 

 thinking of the bees which would visit them, he remarked 

 to the gardener, " What a buzzing they will make presently." 

 " Ay," replied the latter, " they buzz almost as beautiful as 

 the organ in the chapel." At 4 ft. from the ground the girths 

 of the eight Limes are 13 ft. 4 in., u ft. 6 in., 8 ft. 6 in., 

 n ft. 8 in., 10 ft. 7 in., 8 ft. 6 in., 10 ft. i in., and n ft. 3 in. 



The largest Birch in the garden girths 5 ft. 10 in., and a 

 Mountain Ash, 4 ft. 2 in. I have not been able to ascer- 

 tain the exact age of any of the older trees ; but my friend 

 Mr. Joseph, to whom I am obliged for the measurements, 

 writes that the late Warden remembered the planting of the 

 Catalpa, when he had not long been a Fellow, i.e. 1830, which 

 now has a girth of just over 8 ft. So strictly observed (by 



