16 GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 



The gardens at Cannons, on some of the musical 

 days at which place, such was the eagerness to hear 

 Handel (and, no doubt, to view the garden), that fifty 

 Hackney coaches, crammed with company, have been 

 counted in one day at Edgeware. 



That of Lady Brooke's at Hackney, ' one of the 

 neatest and most celebrated in England.' 



That garden at Edger, which (as Switzer informs 

 us) was the very last Mr. London superintended, 

 belonging to the Earl of Carnarvon, one of the most 

 illustrious and most noble-spirited geniuses of this 

 age, who, notwithstanding his familiarity in all other 

 arts and sciences, seems to have made gardening and 

 the august embellishments of his country seat, his 

 darling and favourite employ.* 



* Switzer thus goes on : ' And shall we not at least just mention 

 the Right Honourable the Earls of Scarbrough, Sunderland, 

 Rochester, and Chesterfield ; the Dukes of Montague, Bolton, and 

 Kent ; not to omit, and that for many weighty reasons, the late, and 

 no less eminent in his love to gardening and agriculture, the present 

 illustrious and most noble Duke of Devonshire, with many others 

 amongst some of the greatest ornaments of arts and sciences, 

 especially gardening, that history has produced, in their several 

 chateaux and seats of Stanstead, Althorp, New Park, &c , in those 

 of Boughton, Hawkwood, and Wrest, and last of all, in that stupen- 

 dous performance of Chatsworth.' 



Let me add to these the name of Charles Montagu, Earl of 

 Halifax, the warm friend of Addison, whom Tickell alludes to 

 in his elegy on Addison, and which Dr. Drake, in his generous and 

 masterly biographical sketch of Addison, observes, 'may be 



