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one of his lesser- known writings, " Fumifugtum : or the 

 Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoke of London dissi- 

 pated," he not only anticipates the labours of the Kyrle 

 Society, or that for the Abatement of the Smoke 

 Nuisance, but he has forestalled Mr. Ebenezer Howard 

 in his plan for the creation of Garden Cities. 



London was to have been the first great Garden 

 City, and by this means the Smoke of London was to 

 be neutralised and abated. 



The quotation is rather lengthy, but nothing could 

 better represent Evelyn's dual character as a lover of the 

 City and of the Country alike : if his plan could have 

 been realised, the separation of the two would have 

 almost ceased to exist. Those who dispute his claim to 

 be ranked amongst the Prophets, will not deny Evelyn's 

 right to canonisation amongst his own Parodist Cultoret 

 Paradisean and Hortulan Saints. 



His proposed remedy was : 



That all low grounds circumjacent to the city, especially 

 east and south-west, be cast and contriv'd into square plots, 

 or fields of twenty, thirty and forty akers or more, separated 

 from each other by fences of double palisads, or contr'- 

 spaliars, which should enclose a plantation of an hundred 

 and fifty, or more, feet deep about each field ; not much 

 unlike to what his Majesty has already begun by the wail 

 from old Spring Garden to St. James's in that park; and is 

 somewhat resembled in the new Spring Garden at Lambeth. 

 That these palisads be elegantly planted, diligently kept and 



