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walks like arbours close, others shady, others open, some 

 gravel, some grass." Standard cypress or yews " cut in 

 severall forms were dotted about." Trim hedges of holly, 

 laurel or box, divided the parts of the garden : for instance, 

 " the front garden w ch has the largest fountaine," from " the 

 garden of flower trees, and all sorts of herbage," or the one 

 with "grass plotts " from the bowling-green. Occasionally, 

 mention is made of "fine greens," and "dwarfs,"* or oranges 

 and lemons ; a shelter or greenhouse. Or, perhaps, the 

 description of a broad terrace with stone steps ; a wilderness 

 planted with pines ; a grove with alleys cut through ; a pond, 

 a canal, or a fine gateway, varies the recital of her travels and 

 gives a reality to the scenes she recalls. At Mr. Thetwin's, 

 near Stafford, she admires the " fine rows of trees " in the park, 



ffirs Scots and Noroway, and y e picanther." She remarks, at 

 Trygothy, in Cornwall, the drawing-room opened into the garden, 



w ch has gravell walks round and across, but y e squares are 

 full of goosebery and shrub trees, and looks more like a kitchen- 

 garden." Of Blith, near Worksop, she says, " I eate good 

 fruite there," and she made her first acquaintance with orange 

 trees at Lady Brook's house in Wiltshire. " Here was fine 

 flowers and greens, Dwarfe trees and Oring and Lemon trees 

 in rows w th fruite and flowers at once and some ripe, they are 

 y e first oring trees I ever saw." 



She evidently admires gardens in the new French or Dutch 

 style, more than the gardens of the last generation. She 

 passes over Haddon, 'merely observing, " it's a good old house, 

 all built of stone on a hill, and behind it is a ffine grove of 

 high trees and good gardens, but nothing very curious as y e 

 mode now is." Again, of " Mr. Paul FohVs seate called 

 Stoake," near Hereford, she writes, " it's a very good old 

 house of timber worke but old ffashion'd, and good roome for 

 gardens, but all in an old fform and mode and Mr. Folie 

 intends to make both a new house and gardens. The latter 

 I saw staked out . . . y e ffine Bowling-green walled in and 

 a Summer-house in it all new." At Barmstone, in Yorkshire, 



* = fruit trees cut small. 



