ON GARDENS 239 



celebrated in England, the house well furnish'd, but a 

 despicable building. Returning, visited one Mr. Tombs's 

 garden; it has large and noble walks, some modern statues, 

 a vineyard, planted in strawberry borders, staked at 

 10 foote distances ; the banquetting-house of cedar, 

 where the couch and seates were carv'd a /'antique. 



Hence we went to the Physick Garden (at Oxford), 

 where the sensitive plant was shew'd us for a greate 

 wonder. There grew canes, olive-trees, rhubarb, but 

 no extraordinary curiosities, besides very good fruit, 

 which when the Iadys had tasted, we return'd in our 

 coach to our lodgings. 



We all din'd at that most obliging and universally- 

 curious Dr. Wilkins's, at Wadham College. He was 

 the first who shew'd me the transparent apiaries, which 

 he had built like casdes and palaces, and so order'd 

 them one upon another as to take the hony without 

 destroying the bees. These were adorn'd with a 

 variety of dials, little statues, vanes, &c. and he was so 

 aboundantly civil, as finding me pleas'd with them, to 

 present me with one of the hives which he had empty, 

 and which I afterwards had in my garden at Sayes 

 Court, where it continu'd many years, and which his 



