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perial shipwright was so fond of being driven 

 in a wheelbarrow over the box edgings and the 

 parterres of the author of the Sylva, that they 

 were entirely destroyed ; " which" says he, " I 

 can shew in my now ruined gardens at Say's 

 Court (thanks to the Czar). " 



Mr. Evelyn was evidently a good Christian, 

 but he appears to have overlooked the pas- 

 sage in Scripture, which says, 



" Put not your faith in princes;" 



for it does not appear that the Emperor 

 of Russia made him the least recompence for 

 the devastation he committed, both in the 

 garden and the mansion ; and he certainly was 

 an unrewarded slave to Charles the Second. 



Mr. Evelyn informs us, that Lord Dacres 

 had a Park in Sussex, environed with a holly- 

 hedge, so as to keep in any game ; and he 

 adds, " I have seen hedges, or, if you will, 

 stout walls of holly twenty feet in height, kept 

 upright, and the gilded sort budded low, and 

 in two or three places one above another, 

 shorn and fashioned into columns and pilasters, 

 architectonially shaped, and at due distance ; 

 than which, nothing can possibly be more 

 pleasant, the berry adorning the intercolum- 

 niations with scarlet festoons and encarpa." 



At the time this author flourished, land- 

 scape gardening did not exist, and all the gar- 



