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gardening. Incidentally we come across 

 helpful light of this sort in books not speci- 

 ally dedicated to horticulture, as in two or 

 three of the plates to Kennett's Parochial 

 Antiquities (1695), where there are views, very 

 serviceable for the immediate purpose, of 

 Borstall manor house, of Mr. John Coker's 

 residence, of Robert South's Manse at 

 Islip, and of Sir John Walter's seat at 

 Saresden, all in Oxfordshire. In these repre- 

 sentations the details are furnished with a 

 fidelity and minuteness for which one ought 

 to be grateful, as it puts us in possession of 

 the manner in which the men of the end 

 of the seventeenth century arranged their 

 borders and walks, of the aspect of their 

 demesnes and frontages, and of the course 

 which they pursued in walling or paling the 

 space round their houses. All these interest- 

 ing points are more lucidly worked out in the 

 engravings to Kennett than in others, where 

 little more than a ground-plan is visible, as 

 in fat Jar din de Wilton by Isaac de Caus, 

 for instance. 



I do not find in our own early literature 



