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house in Lambeth, the Garden of which was filled 

 with an amazing number of trees, plants, and flowers 

 "particularly rich in those from South America." 

 In the churchyard of Old Lambeth Church there 

 is a tombstone erected to the Tradescants, from 

 the clever epitaph on which is learnt that the 

 three generations lie there; how they collected all 

 that was rare " in sea and land," and how they 

 were "both gardeners to the Rose and Lily 

 Queen," and that at the last day they will change 

 " this Garden for a Paradise." 



Not many alterations were made in the style of 

 Gardens in the reigns of James I. and Charles I., 

 but it was during this time that through the 

 influence of Inigo Jones the first Garden buildings 

 came to be erected, consisting of Tea Houses, 

 Banqueting Houses, and Fishing Lodges. That 

 extraordinarily versatile genius, John Evelyn, who 

 " first taught Gardening to speak proper English," 

 first appears in Charles I.'s reign. What he did for 

 Gardens and Gardening can never be over-estimated, 

 as he wrote with not only great literary taste but 

 practical knowledge, and his name must ever stand 

 out in the history of English Gardens. His 

 delightful descriptions of Gardens at home and 

 abroad are treasuries of information to all interested 

 in the subject. 



Evelyn's chief books were his translation of de La 

 Quintinye's " Compleat Gardener " and his " Sylva," 



