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perfected ; also the hare park. In the garden is a rich 

 and noble fountaine, with syrens, statues, &c. cast in 

 copper by Fanelli, but no plenty of water. The cradle- 

 walk of home beame in the garden is, for the perplexed 

 twining of the trees, very observable. There is a parterre 

 which they call Paradise, in which is a pretty banquetting- 

 house set over a cave or cellar. All these gardens might 

 be exceedingly improved, as being too narrow for such 

 a palace. 



Next to Wadham, and the Physick Garden, where 

 were two large locust trees, and as many platana, and 

 some rare plants under the culture of old Bobart. 1 



1666. There stand in the Garden (of Nonesuch) two 

 handsome stone pyramids, and the avenue planted with 

 rows of faire elmes, but the rest of these goodly trees, 



1 Jacob Bobart, a German, was appointed the first keeper 

 of the Physic Garden at Oxford. There is a fine print of 

 him after Loggan by Burghers, dated 1675. Also a small 

 whole length in the frontispiece of Vertumnus, a poem on 

 that garden. In this he is dressed in a long vest, with a 

 beard. His descendants were still in Oxford in Loudon's 

 time. He died in his Garden-house, 4 Feb., 1679 (Anth. 

 Wood). 



