i64 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



" Feb. lo, 1652 sent my Coz Henry Oxinden the yew tree . . . lent him 

 then my stone rowle. 



" Nov. 16, 1647 planted twentie-five peare trees in the garden that is 

 walled about at Great Maydeken witness my sonne Thomas and my 

 Sonne Hobart. 



" Nov. 1654 tooke up out of the Nursery at Maydeken i quince tree, 2 

 warden trees and 3 other peare trees, and set y"^ in Byton, and i pear 

 tree against the bake house windore, I allso sete one medlar tree and a 

 nutmeg peach tree in the garden. 



" Fb. 19, 1655 grafted one of the best pares Capt. Meriwether hath 

 uppon a tree beside the house at South Barham ; made a crosse upon it : 

 it is to be eaten in Feb. 



" 1639, hee (Sir Basil Dexivell at Boome) planted his orchard agt. his 

 back dore agt. the Hall. 



" Feb. 7, 1647 Lieutenant Hobday planted 10 apple trees, in his 

 orchard next his garden, which I gave him. 



" 1665 Ms. Adie, Relict of Ed. Ady, new coped the wall round about 

 the gardens and the Greene Court." 



The note-book of Sir Thomas Hanmer/ about this date 

 contains some memoranda of the fruit-trees in his garden at 

 Bettisfield : 



" Against the South wall arc one Apricocke from Mr. Rea,^ three 

 Apricockcs from London, one peache from a French stone, raised at 

 Bettisfield 1660, and two red-heart cherries from Trevallyn. In the 

 corner next to the turf walk one pear from Bowen, I think a bergamot. 

 Against the West wall there, from the south wall to the door, all plums 

 from Colonel Jeffreycs, except one double-flowered cherry, and one 

 morocco plum next the door ; on the other side the door, first a bullen 

 plum, then a Turkey plum, then a king plum, then a Catalonia plum, 

 and a Duke cherry, a cornelian. Against the North Wall these plums 

 from Trevallyn, viz., the Apricocke plum and the orange, and one plum 

 from Colonel Jeffreyes. Against the East Wall in the great garden, may 

 cherries, a carnation cherry, about the middle of the wall, a duke cherry 

 at the end, close by the North Wall, a cornelian cherry from Rea 

 marbled, and a turkey plum from Rea ... In the little court . . . are 

 three peaches from Mr. Bate, viz. a Morills ... a Ncwington . . . then a 

 Persian peach. . . . Against the East Wall of the little garden, beginning 

 from the South Wall, first three peaches raised 1660 at Bettisfield, from 

 French stones, then a peach de Pau, then a Savoy peach." 



These little details cannot fail to be of interest. They show 

 how a man, an ardent Cavalier, who had lived through such 

 stirring scenes, turned his attention to his garden to pass 



^ A Memorial of the Parish and Family of Hanmer in Flintshire, by 

 John, Lord Hanmer, privately printed, 1877. 

 ^ Author of Flora, Ceres, and Pomona. 



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