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vineyard planted." This curious cutting through the hill still 

 exists, besides other traces of the old work, and a very fine yew 

 hedge. Again, he shows himself to be the advocate of a holly 

 hedge, in the following extract from his Diary : — " 25 Sept. 1672, 

 I din'd at Lord John Berkeleys ... it was in his new house or 

 rather palace. . . For the rest, the fore court is noble, so are 

 the stables, and above all the gardens, which are incomparable 

 b}- reason of the inequalit}' of the ground, and a pretty piscina. 

 The holly hedges on the terrace I advised the planting of." 

 Berkeley House, which was burnt to the ground, stood on the 

 site of what is now Hay Hill, Berkeley Square, and Lansdowne 

 House. 



In 1664 Evelyn published his Kalendarinm Hortense, or 

 Gardener's Almanac, a most popular work, which went through 

 a number of editions, and appeared with the last corrected 

 edition of the Silva, in 1705, and Evelyn died at the end of 

 the same ^-ear. The flowers to be planted and the business 

 to be done in each month is carefully gone through. He 

 gives also a list of the comparative tenderness of flowers, 

 and divides them into three classes, those " least patient of 

 cold," "to be first set into the conservatory or otherwise 

 defended," those " enduring second degree cf cold," and 

 accordingly "to be secured in the conservatory," class 111. 

 " not perishing but in excessive colds to be last set in 

 or protected under matrasses or slighter coverings." His 

 classifications of some of the plants are rather singular. The 

 first begms well with Acacia Aegyptiaca (= A. vera), Aloe 

 American (= Agave americana), then Amaranthus tricolor, 

 but the list contains also Styrax Colutea, or bladder senna, 

 and white lilac, which are hardy, while oranges, lemons, 

 oleanders and " Spanish jasmine " [J. odoratissimiim) are in the 

 second class with the " Suza Iris" (/. susiana), "summer purple 

 C3'clamen " (C europoeum), and "Digitalis Hispan " [luica). 

 The last list classes together, pomegranate and pine-apples 

 with Eryngium planum and winter aconite. 



In Rea's Flora, Ceres and Pomona, the approximate size 

 of a garden is given. The dimensions are much more modest 

 than Bacon's " princely -garden/' eighty square yards for 



