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For the rest, the fore court (at Lord John Berkeley's, 

 of Stratton) is noble, so are the stables, and above all, 

 the gardens, which are incomparable by reason of the 

 inequalitie of the ground, and a pretty piscina. The 

 holly hedges on the terrace I advised the planting of. 

 The porticoes are in imitation of an house described by 

 Palladio, but it happens to be the worst in his booke, 

 tho' my good friend Mr. Hugh May, his Lordship's 

 architect, effected it. 



3 Jan., 1673. My sonn now published his version 

 of ' Rapinus Hortorum.' l 



29 April, 1675. I rea d my first discourse Of 

 Earth and Vegetation,' before the Royall Society, as 

 a lecture in course after Sir Rob. Southwell had read 

 his the weeke before On Water. I was commanded 

 by our President and the suffrage of the Society to 

 print it. 



10 Sep., 1677. The orange garden (at Euston) is 



1 Of Gardens. Four Books. First written in Latin Terse, 



by Renatus Rapinus, and now made English. By I. e! 



London, 1673. Dedicated to Henry Earle of Arlington, &c. 



