Chap. I. of GARDENING, &c. 6i 



gether the Heat of the Sun, but the Clearnefs 

 of the Soil, that accelerates the Growth of 

 Fruit, to which a Gravelly Bottom is a help : 

 and in all other refpe&s he came up to that 

 pitch as was expeded from his ingenious 

 Pen. That he had a great love to Garden- 

 ing, appears by his own Writings, and feve- 

 ral kinds of Fruit brought over by him out 

 of Holland^ Scc. as well as by the Teftimony 

 of his Neighbours yet living, the greateft 

 Confolation of his whole Life being, in the 

 lucid Intervals he had from Publick Employs, 

 in his beloved Gardens at Sheen 5 in which 

 'tis faid, he ordered his Heart to be inter- 

 red, after his death. His works are gene- 

 rally well known ^ but left by any means 

 Pofterity fliou'd want better Information, he 

 was one of the Plenipotentiaries for the 

 King of Great-Britain at the Peace of M- 

 meguen. 



The Plantations of the Right Honourable 

 the Lord Cap el are ftill to be feen at Kevif Lorict^ 

 ovtr-2ig2iinG: Brentford : The greateft advance ^^ ^^'^* 

 made by him herein, was the bringing over 

 feveral forts of Fruit from France $ and this 

 Noble Lord we may fuppofe to be one that 

 held for may Years a Correfpondence with 

 Monfieur de la Quintinye^ (as has been before 

 obferved.) The Earlinefs in which this 

 Lord appear 'd in Gard ning, merits a very 

 great place in this Hiftory, and a better Pen 

 than mine to draw it. 



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