36 GLEANINGS ON GARDENS, 



though of a great age. Sir Stephen Fox's house 

 adjacent is much finer outside, and a regular palace 

 a-la-moderne, with very extensive gardens; but Sutton 

 Court is une bijoux ; it hath three parterres from the 

 three fronts of the house, each finely adorned with 

 statues. The gardens are irregular, but that, I think, 

 adds to their beauty, for every walk affords variety ; 

 the hedges, grottos, statues, mounts, and canals, are so 

 many surprising beauties. Near Sutton Court, General 

 Witham hath built a most magnificent seat of free- 

 stone, and is laying out also spacious gardens. 



Canterbury. 



Mr. Taybour's gardens at Byfronts are indeed 

 worth seeing, as also Sir Basil Dixwel's, on the skirts 

 of Parham Downs, near this city. 



Tunbridge Wells. 



Within three miles of this place is a venerable 

 old seat which they told me belonged to the family of 

 the Yilliers, Dukes of Buckingham (but now out of 

 order), called Sommer-hill. It's pity so beautiful a 

 place should be so neglected, for its situation is noble, 

 and its gardens have been very large ; I could see 

 above fifty miles in full view from its apartments. 



