GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 7 



flowers, and they still continue to be so in a con- 

 siderable degree/ 



Kip has engraved, in folio, from the designs of 

 Knyff, very interesting views of the magnificence of 

 our old gardens, under the title of Britcmnia Illusfaata. 



Atkyns' Gloucestershire gives us many of Kip's 

 views. 



Beeverell's Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de 

 I'Irlande, 8vo. 12mo., Leide, 1727, gives many views 

 of old English gardens, most of them reduced views 

 from Kip. 



Peter Vander, at Amsterdam, published in an 

 oblong 8vo. reduced views from Kip, entitled Vues 

 des ViUes, in several parts or tomes. 



Badeslade published Thirty-six views of Seats in 

 Kent, with their gardens ; no date, folio ; some of 

 them engraved by Kip. 



To sum up all, let me again refer to the most 

 beautiful plates ever given of old English gardens, 

 namely, to that at Oxnead Hall, in the second 

 volume of Britton's Architectural Antiquities, and to 

 his exquisite copy of Kip's views of the garden at 

 Longleat, in the same splendid volume. 



Whether any of the following plates may be 

 worth copying, I leave to others to judge of: 



Isaac de Caux published Twenty-six plates of 

 Wilton Gardens. "Woollett engraved views of the 



