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fellow-gardeners, Mr London and Mr Wise." This 

 hedge protects the orange trees, myrtles, and other 

 rare perennials and exotics from the scorching rays 

 of the sun ; and it equally well shelters the flowers. 

 " Here the Indian Narcissus, Tuberoses, Japan 

 Lillies, Jasmines, Jonquills, Periclimena, Roses, Car- 

 nations, with all the pride of the parterre, intermixt 

 between the tree-cases, flowery vases, busts, and 

 statues, entertain the eye, and breathe their redolent 

 odours and perfumes to the smell." Clearly there 

 is an advantage in being a gardener if we write 

 about gardens (provided you are not a mere 

 " landscape-gardener ! "). 



One cannot deny that Horace Walpole did well 

 to expose the absurd vagaries which were being per- 

 petrated about his time under Dutch influences. 

 Close alliance with Holland through the House of 

 Orange had affected every department of horti- 

 culture. True, it had enriched our gardens and 

 conservatories with many rare and beautiful species 

 of flowers and bulbs, and had imbued the English 

 collector with the tulip-mania. So far good. But 

 to the same source we trace the reign of the 

 shears in the English garden, which made Art in a 

 Garden ridiculous, and gave occasion to the enemy 

 to blaspheme. 



" The gardeners about London," says Mr Lam- 

 bert, writing to the Linnsean Transactions in 1712, 

 "were remarkable for fine cut greens, and clipt yews 

 in the shapes of birds, dogs, men, ships, &c. Mr. 

 Parkinson in Lambeth was much noticed for these 



