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delslo, a traveller ; but so little interest had the 

 garden excited at home, that when Mandelslo's 

 book came to be " done into English," the descrip- 

 tion of the garden was left out as not worth read- 

 ing. 



In the reign of Charles I. (1629), Parkinson 

 published his great work, l Paradisi in sole Para- 

 disus terrestris, or a Garden of all sortes of pleasant 

 flowers, with a Kitchen Garden of all manner of 

 herbs and roots, and an Orchard of all sortes of 

 fruit-bearing trees.' Parkinson may justly claim to 

 be considered as the Bacon of horticulture, because 

 he sent men into the garden and the orchard to see 

 with their own eyes, and handle with their own 

 hands. He describes fifty-eight sorts of apples, 

 sixty-four pears, sixty-one plums, twenty-one peaches, 

 five nectarines, six apricots, thirty-six cherries, three 

 figs, and twenty-three vines, with sorts of most of the 

 smaller hardy fruits stilt cultivated. Thirty-five years 

 after the appearance of Parkinson's work, the cele- 

 brated Evelyn did for the trees of the forest what his 

 predecessor had done for those of the orchard. 



Charles II. paid some attention to the luxury of 

 fruits, one of his very few harmless propensities. 

 Le Notre, the favourite gardener of Louis XIV., 

 was his landscape gardener ; and Rose, his private 

 gardener, who also had studied in France, was 

 so skilled in the management of hot-houses as to 

 be able to produce ripe cherries and strawberries at 

 an installation dinner, holden at Windsor on the 23rd 

 of April, 1667. 



We are approaching a period when the commerce 

 of England began to afford some indications of its 

 future greatness of its unbounded enterprize, and its 

 universal application to the interchange of necessaries 

 and luxuries. About this time the first pines were 

 grown in England. We, probably, obtained this 



