4^ the His TO KY Chap. I. 



Trees, and feveral kinds of Flowers, have 

 been cultivated a hundred Years ago, as now, 

 tho' perhaps not in fo great abundance. 



^«eenEli- About the Reign of Queen Elizabeth of 



2tabeth. immortal Memory, we may fuppofe fome 

 of the Old Avenues and Walks adjoining to 

 Noblemens Houfes, were planted 5 and of 

 that Date feems to be the Old Walks at Hat- 

 field (and at feveral other Places,) planted, 



LordTrea- no doubt, by that great Minifter of State 



/«rer Bur- ^j^^ Lqj.j Treafurer Burlekh. 



^'^ * What was particularly done by her Royal 



King Succeflbr King James I. is not certain ^ but 

 James I. that That Ingenious Prince (the Glory of 

 all Crown'd Heads, for Learning) Ihould mifs 

 this, amongft other his refined Amufements 

 and Speculations, wou'd be irrational to 

 fuppofe. 



And (to ftrcngthen this Suppofition) it 

 muft be obferv'd, that in the Reign of this 

 Learned Prince, flourifli'd fome of the great- 

 eft Philofophers, and fome of them great 

 Lovers of Gard'ning, (viz.) the Right Ho- 

 Lord ve- nourable the Lord Verulam^ Sir Henry W'ootton^ 

 ruiam. Sir Hu^h Flat, &c. The Writings of this 

 Noble and Ingenious Lord are extant ftill 

 amongft us 5 and Gard'ning may be remark'd 

 to have a great fhare in his Thoughts. 

 5/v Henry And by the Account given by Sir Henry 

 wootton. y[^QQiiQji^ Gard'ning had as early an Original 

 in England as any-where ^ the fame worthy 

 Perfon intimating, that a Garden of my Lord 

 Verulam\ as I renieniber, (for I have not 



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