2 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



small plot of ground behind his house there, 

 and watched with interest the progress to- 

 ward maturity of his Windsor pears and 

 jargonelles. 



How affectionately attached to their gar- 

 dens and the pursuits connected with the 

 culture of trees, fruits, and flowers Bacon, 

 Evelyn, Temple, Walpole, and other eminent 

 Englishmen have been, it will form part of 

 my duty in the following pages to demon- 

 strate. 



General Lambert, who was lord of the 

 manor of Wimbledon in 1656, was very fond 

 of his garden at that place, and grew, it is 

 said, the finest tulips and gilliflowers procur- 

 able. It is to his passion for this pursuit that 

 he owed his place on a pack of satirical cards 

 published during the Commonwealth, where 

 the Eight of Hearts bears a small full-length 

 of him, holding a tulip in his right hand, with 

 " Lambert Kt. of y e Golden Tulip " beneath. 

 He had withdrawn into what was then the 

 country from political life ; but, amid his 

 recreations as a florist, was doubtless watch- 

 ing the opportunity for a return to the field 



