GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 39 



you to the bowling-green of Putney, whither the 

 citizens resort twice a week, and where I have seen 

 pretty deep play. At Putney are several charming 

 seats with their large gardens, fish-ponds, and groves, 

 and indeed the whole parish is one continued garden. 

 At Parson's Green, saw an old seat of the Earl of 

 Peterborough, with fine gardens. 



Cambridge. 



Visited that worthy old gentleman, Sir Robert 

 Cotton, at his villa of Hatley St. George, a seat worthy 

 of so great and good a man. He hath a noble collec- 

 tion of original paintings, and his house and gardens 

 everywhere answer the grandeur of the first quality. 



When the Stuarts came to the throne the space 

 that then separated London and Westminster was filled 

 with several noble palaces and their delicate gardens 

 along the side of the River Thames, viz. : those of the 

 Earl of Essex, Duke of Norfolk, Somerset House, the 

 Savoy, Worcester House, Exeter House, Bedford 

 House, Salisbury House, York House, Northumber- 

 land House, and Whitehall ; but now most of these 

 splendid palaces are pulled down, and with their 

 gardens built into spacious streets. 



Great Marlborough Street, which though not a 

 square, surpasses anything that is called a street, in 



