GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 



CHAPTER I. 



GLEANINGS ON GARDENS, CHIEFLY, RESPECTING 

 THOSE OF THE ANCIENT STYLE IN ENGLAND. 



IN that rich assemblage of whatever concerns 

 horticulture, London's Encyclopaedia of Gar- 

 dening, is ( page 71 ) a beautiful plate of Chats- 

 worth ; and in the second volume of Britton's Archi- 

 tectural Antiquities are two fascinating plates, of the 

 old garden at Oxnead Hall and of that at Long- 

 leat. The sight of these plates may, and I hope will, 

 induce some gentleman to publish in a similar neat 

 style a selection of plates of some of those magnificent 

 and beautiful old English gardens which, during the 

 reigns of Elizabeth, James I. and II., Charles I. and 

 II., William, Anne, George I. and II., and the early 

 part of that of George III., adorned, embellished, 

 and enriched the mansions of many of our nobility 

 and gentry. 



That distinguished writer on the Picturesque, Sir 



