238 JOHN EVELYN 



where sometime after my father's death I made a 

 triangular pond, or little stew, with an artificial rock 

 after my coming out of Flanders. 



We went to see Penshurst, the Earl of Leicester's, 

 famous once for its gardens and excellent fruit, and for 

 the noble conversation which was wont to meete there, 

 celebrated by that illustrious person Sir Philip Sidney, 

 who had there compos'd divers of his pieces. It 

 stands in a park, is finely water 'd, and was now full of 

 company on the marriage of my old fellow collegiate 

 Mr. Robert Smith, who married my Lady Dorothy 

 Sidney widdow of the Earle of Sunderland. 



17 Jan., 1653. I began to set out the ovall garden 

 at Sayes Court, which was before a rude orchard and 

 all the rest one intire field of 100 acres, without any 

 hedge, except the hither holly hedge joyning to the 

 bank of the mount walk. This was the beginning of 

 all the succeeding gardens, walks, groves, enclosures, 

 and plantations there. 



May, 1654. I went to Hackney to see my Lady 

 Brook's garden, which was one of the neatest and most 



