Chap. I . of G ARDMNG, &c. 5 3 



in Gard'ning^ befides what he did at Wind/or^ 

 and in other Places : And Sir William Temple 

 relates, that in Honour of his own Country, 

 and contrary to the Boaftings of the French^ 

 and other foreign Minifters, the King, in his 

 mild and ingenious manner of exprefling him- 

 felf, faid. He liKd tbofe Gardens^ or that a mrthy 

 Country heft^ vohich might he enjoyed the moft ^^P^^IP°n 

 Hours in the Day^ and the moft Days in the^ 

 Tear^ which he was fure was to be done in 

 England, more than in any Country whatfoever. 

 A Phrafe worthy a King of Great- Britain^ 

 and a Lover of his Kingdoms. 



The Royal Garden in St. James's Park, part The Royal 

 of which is now in the PoflTeflion of the Right ^^^e^^« '« 

 Honourable the Lord Carlton, and the upper Paril!"^^^ ^ 

 part belonging to Marlborough- Houfe^ was of 

 that King's Planting 5 which were, in the Re- 

 membrance of moft People, the fineft Lines of 

 Dwarfs, perhaps, in the Univerfe. Mr,London^ 

 of whom I (hall fay more at the latter end 

 of my Hiftory, prefuming before Monfieur 

 de la Quintinye the famous French Gardener, 

 (whofe Works are both tranflated and a- 

 bridg'd) to challenge all France with the 

 like : And if France^ why not the whole 

 World? 



To this Prince is likewife owing the Plant- 

 ing and Repairing the Walks in St. James s 

 Park^ on which the ingenious Mr. Waller Mr^vj^ikt 

 writ a Poetical Effay 5 and having it now m^hePoet. 

 my Hands, I fliall tranfcribe a part of it, 



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