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walks like arbours close, others shady, others open, some 

 gravel, some grass." Standard cypress or yews "cut in 

 severall forms were dotted about." Trim hedges of holly, 

 laurel or box, divided the parts of the garden : — for instance, 

 " the front garden w'''' has the largest fountaine," from " the 

 garden of flower trees, and all sorts of herbage," or the one 

 with " grass plotts " from the bowling-green. Occasionally, 

 mention is made of " line greens," and " dwarfs," * or oranges 

 and lemons ; a shelter or greenhouse. Or, perhaps, the 

 description of a broad terrace with stone steps ; a wilderness 

 planted with pines ; a grove with alleys cut through ; a pond, 

 a canal, or a fine gateway, varies the recital of her travels and 

 gives a reality to the scenes she recalls. At Mr. Thetwin's, 

 near Stafford, she admires the " fine rows of trees " in the park, 

 " fifirs Scots and Noroway, and y* picanther." She remarks, at 

 Trygothy, in Cornwall, the drawing-room opened into the garden, 

 " w^'^' has gravell walks round and across, but y^ squares are 

 full of goosebery and shrub trees, and looks more like a kitchen- 

 garden." Of Blith, near Worksop, she says, " I eate good 

 fruite there," and she made her first acquaintance with orange 

 trees at Lady Brook's house in Wiltshire. " Here was fine 

 flowers and greens, Dwarfe trees and Oring and Lemon trees 

 in rows w"' fruite and flowers at once and some ripe, they are 

 y*^ first oring trees I ever saw." 



She evidently admires gardens in the new French or Dutch 

 style, more than the gardens of the last generation. She 

 passes over Haddon, merely observing, " it's a good old house, 

 all built of stone on a hill, and behind it is a ffine grove of 

 high trees and good gardens, but nothing very curious as y*^ 

 mode now is." Again, of " Mr. Paul Folie's seate called 

 Stoake," near Hereford, she writes, " it's a very good old 

 house of timber worke but old ffashion'd, and good roome for 

 gardens, but all in an old fform and mode and Mr. Folic 

 intends to make both a new house and gardens. The latter 

 I saw staked out . . . y*^ ffine Bowling-green walled in and 

 a Summer-house in it all new." At Barmstone, in Yorkshire, 



* ^ fruit trees cut sninll. 



