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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 " fine 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, 

 " fhrs 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 BHth, 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 FoHe'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. FoHe 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, she notices 

 " the gardens are large, and are capable of being made very 

 ffine, they now remain in the old fashion." Lord Sandwich, 

 near Huntingdon, was having a new garden made. " The 

 gardens and wilderness and greenhouse will be very fine when 

 quite ffinshed, with the dwarf trees and gravell walks. There 

 1 = fruit trees cut small. 



