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delighted in what the mob now scarce admire in 

 a college-garden. All the ingredients of Pliny's 

 correspond exactly with those laid out by I,on- 

 don and Wise on Dutch principles. He talks 

 of slopes, terraces, a wilderness, shrubs method- 

 ically trimmed, a marble basin,* pipes spouting 

 water, a cascade falling into the basin, bay- 

 trees, alternately planted with planes, and a 

 straight walk, from whence issued others part- 

 ed oif by hedges of box, and apple-trees, with 

 obelisks placed between every two. There wants 

 nothing but the embroidery of a parterre, to 

 make a garden in the reign of Trajan serve for 

 a description of one in that of King William, j 

 In one passage above Pliny seems to have con- 



* The English gardens described by Hentzner in the. 

 reign of Elizabeth are exact copies of those of Pliny. In 

 that at Whitehall was a sun-dial andjet-d'eau, which, on 

 turning a cock, spurted put water and sprinkled the 

 spectators. In I,ord Burleigh's, at Theobald's, were obe- 

 lisks, pyramids, and circular porticos, with cisterns of 

 lead for bathing. At Hampton Court the garden walls 

 were covered with rosemary, a custom, he says, very 

 common in England. At Theobald's was a labyrinth 

 also, an ingenuity I shall mention presently to have 

 been frequent in that age. 



f Dr. Plot, in his " Natural History of Oxfordshire," p. 

 380, seems to have been a great admirer of trees carved 

 into the most heterogeneous forms, which he calls topiary 

 works, and quotes one I^aurembergius for saying that the 

 English are as expert as most nations in that kind of 

 sculpture ; for which Hampton Court was particularly 

 remarkable. The doctor then names other gardens that 

 flourished with animals and castles, formed artetopiaria, 

 and above all a wren's nest that was capacious enough 

 to receive a man to sit on a seat made within for that 

 purpose. 



