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Lord Burleigh's, and that at Hanii)ton Court, as delineated by Hentzncr 

 are accurate copies of them. There wants nothing, as is justly re- 

 marked by Walpole, but the cml)roidory of a parterre, to make a garden 

 in tiie reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of King 

 William. — See Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. IV. 



That horticulture was really introduced into Britain by the Romans, 

 there is no sort of doubt, and that their proconsular governors brought 

 it to a considerable height of perfection. Pliny tells us, that cherries 

 were originally an Asiatic fruit, not known in Italy till after the triumphs 

 of LucuUus, on account of the Mithridatic war, in the 680th year of 

 the city, when they were brought over by that celebrated commander. 

 But so diligently were they cultivated, that, within 120 years, they were 

 carried over to Britain. Hist. Nat. L. XV. 25. 



Note XI. Page 63. 



Prince Maurice of Nassau, as Barlaeus informs us, was appointed 

 Governor of Brazil about the year 1630 ; and, after several successful 

 efforts both of military and political talent, in defence of that province, 

 he erected, in 1639, the palace or goveriunent house of Friburg, and 

 laid out the luxurious gardens, of which an account is given in the text. 

 In some parts, Barlaeus is extremely happy in drawing after the mamier 

 of the ancient historians ; and, although the passage is long, as he de- 

 scribes the site, and in some sort the particulars, of one of the greatest 

 transplanting feats recorded in modem times, it may be worth while (the 

 book being scarce) to give the passage entire, for the gratification of the 

 reader. " Planities horrida, inculta, nuUis arboribus, nullo frutice 

 induta, sordebat situ. * * JDdificimn ea cura k Comite fuit, ut spectata 

 salubritas fuerit, curata tranquillitas, parta loco securitas, neque neglecta 

 hortorum amcnnilas. * * Surgebant Cociae spectabili serie septingentae, 

 j)rociores alia;, alia; humiliorcs, quarum quaedam caudicem attollebant quin- 

 quaginta, quacdamquadraginta, quaedam triginta pedum altitudine, prius- 

 quam ramorum attingeret divergia. Has cum transferri non posse omnium 

 esset opinio, scite efibssas, petoritis, trium quatuorve miliarum spatio 

 vectari, et pontonibus trans fluvios deportari, in insulam jussit. Trans- 

 latas, non labore soliiin sed ingenio, excepit amica tellus, eaque fsecun- 

 ditate, praeter omnium spcrn, implcvit aiinosas arbores, ut primo ab 

 insitione anno mirA nascendi aviditate, fructus dederint copiosissimos. 

 Jam septuagenarias ct octogenarian erunt, veterique proverbio fidom im- 



