66 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



There is no doubt that the successive 

 exertions of Evelyn and Pope, brought to 

 bear on their noble and powerful friends, 

 were instrumental in achieving many valuable 

 improvements, by encouraging, on the one 

 hand, the taste, and, on the other, the genius 

 for landscape-gardening. It would be im- 

 possible, I conceive, to name two Englishmen 

 who respectively exercised so healthy and im- 

 portant an influence for good in this direction 

 as the authors of Sylva and Windsor Forest. 



In Gibson's sketch of the principal 

 gardens, public and private, near London, 

 in 1691, there is a considerable degree of 

 interest. He includes some of the nursery- 

 men. Subjoined is a list of the names which 

 he furnishes : 



Hampton Court. 



Kensington Gardens. 



The Queen Dowager's Garden at Hammersmith. 



Beddington Garden, leased to the Duke of Norfolk. 



Chelsea Physic-Garden. 



My Lord Ranelagh's Garden. 



Arlington Garden, in the possession of my Lord of 



Devonshire. 

 My Lord Fauconberg's Garden. 



