GLEANINGS ON GARDENS. 45 



quantity of water in a country where are neither 

 rivers or springs ; but they tell me that the Duke 

 hath his water in pipes from the mountains of Stan- 

 more, about two miles off. The gardens are very 

 large and well disposed ; but the greatest pleasure of 

 all is that the divisions of the whole, being only made 

 by balustrades of iron and not by walls, you see the 

 whole at once, be you in what part of the garden or 

 parterre you will. In his large kitchen garden there 

 are bee-hives of glass, very curious ; and at the end of 

 each of his chief avenues he hath neat lodgings for 

 eight old Serjeants of the army, whom he took out 

 of Chelsea College, who guard the whole, go their 

 rounds at night, call the hours as the watchmen 

 do at London to prevent disorders, and wait upon the 

 Duke to chapel on Sundays. It is incredible the iron- 

 work about this noble palace, more I must say than I 

 ever saw elsewhere ; and his gentleman told me they 

 are above a hundred servants in family of one degree 

 or another. 



Winchester. 



At the hospital, founded by Rufus, the master 

 lives like an abbot, hath a very good apartment, with 

 fine gardens, adorned with a canal, and evergreens. 



