Cliap^iD. of GARDENING, &c. 8 3 



kft <av,bA|dable Example to all tji4t lliall 

 have the Encouragement to enter, ^ncj die 

 Courage and Strength to perform what he 

 did. He died towards Chrijl?uaj\ in the 

 Year 1 71 3. 



Before 1 conclude the Hiftorical part of 

 this Work, I muft remark fomething of ouf 

 late pious Queen, whofe love to Gard'nmg A«^^« 

 was not a little. Her firft Works w^ere the ^""^' 

 Rooting up the Box, and giving an EngliJI) 

 Model to the Old-made Gardens at Kenfing- 

 ton 5 and in 1 704 made that New Garden 

 behind the Green-houfe, which is efteem'd 

 amongft the mofl: valuable Pieces of Work 

 that has been done any-where. 



The Place where that beautiful Hollow 

 now is, was a large irregular Gravel-pit, 

 which, according to feveral Defigns given in, 

 was to have been fiU'd 5 but that Mr. Wife 

 prevailed, and has given it that furprizing 

 Model it now appears in. As great a Piece 

 of Work as that whole Ground is, 'twas 

 near all compleated in one Seafon, viz. be- 

 tween Michaelmas and Lady-Day 5 which 

 demonftrates to what a pitch Gard'miig is 

 arriv'd within thefe twenty or thirty 

 Years. 



The Box-work at Hampton-Court was alfo 

 puU'd up fonie time after, and the Gardens 

 laid into that plain but noble manner they 

 »ow appear in- 



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