2 GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 



TJvedale Price, even he regrets with exquisite feeling 

 the destruction of many of our gardens in the old 

 style, arguing for the preservation of the few re- 

 mains that then existed of their ancient magnificence. 

 Horace Walpole, too, brings to our pleased recollection 

 the ancient style of some of our gardens, when his 

 enthusiasm paints with such delight that art which, 

 to use his own words, * softens Nature's harshness and 

 copies her graceful touch.' To such, therefore, who 

 wish to view what engravings have been given of 

 some of our ancient gardens, I beg to offer the follow- 

 ing most scanty and scattered gleanings for their 

 inspection : 



In the Gardener's Labyrinth, * are set forth divers 

 knots and mazes, cunningly handled for the beauti- 

 fying of gardens ; ' and two or three of these woodcuts 

 might be copied.* 



In the title-page to Gerard's own edition of his 

 Herball is a very neat plate of a garden, probably his 

 own ' fine garden ' in Holborn, so eulogised by Dr. 

 Bullen and others. 



Chauncey's Herts exhibits Aspeden Hall with its 

 garden. Respect for the memory of John Lightfoot, 

 the most eminent in Rabbinical learning this country 



* In the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS., No. 5308, is the 

 following entry : ' Variety of plans for garden plots, wildernesses, 

 &c,, neatly drawn on paper, but without any writing at all.' 



