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all that is another matter and Hke the "nicknacks and drapes" about the 

 house, must wait till the house is built and furnished before we consider 

 them. 



Lastly there is one more suggestion from the "curious Pencil of the 

 Ever Memorable Sir Henry," which I wish to include. "Though other 

 Countries," says he, "have more benefit of Sun than we, and thereby more 

 properly tied to contemplate this delight; yet have I seen in our own, a 

 delicate and diligent curiosity, surely without parallel among foreign Na- 

 tions; Namely, in the Garden of Sir Henry Fanshaw, at his Seat in Ware 

 Park; where, I well remember, he did so precisely examine the tinctures 

 and seasons of his flowers, that in their settings the inwardest of those 

 which were to come up at the same time should be always a little darker 

 than the outmost, and so serve them for a kind of gentle shadow, like a 

 piece, not of Nature, but of Jrt. So much of Gardens." 



