ON GARDENS 23 



a discourse upon Forest Trees, a subject very near 

 to Evelyn's heart. As Rene" Rapin sings in his 

 " Poem on a Garden " (translated by Evelyn) 



Long rows of trees and woods my Pen invites 

 With shady walks, and Garden's chief delight. 

 High shooting Linden next exact your care 

 With graceful shades to those who take the air.' 



Evelyn had "a pleasant villa" himself at Dept- 

 ford "a fine garden for walks and hedges 

 (especially a holly one), a pretty little green- 

 house with an indifferent stock in it. In his 

 Garden he had four large round philareas, 

 smooth-clipped, raised on a single stalk from the 

 ground in the fashion now much used. Part of 

 his garden, is very woody, and shady for walking ; 

 but his garden not being walled, has little of the 

 best fruits." 



Among other Garden matters, Evelyn found time 

 to be interested in " The Medical Garden at West- 

 minster," and was a constant visitor there, making 

 notes in his Diary of the new plants he had seen 

 from time to time. The Westminster Physic 

 Garden was entirely superseded by the one made 

 at Chelsea by the Apothecaries Company in 1672. 

 Evelyn visited this Garden of Simples in 1685, 

 and notes that there is a collection of " innumerable 

 rarities." 



