APPENDIX. 



A SHORT ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL GARDENS 

 NEAR LONDON, WITH REMARKS ON 

 SOME PARTICULARS WHEREIN THEY 

 EXCEL OR ARE DEFICIENT, UPON A 

 VIEW OF THEM IN DECEMBER, 169!.* 



HAMPTON COURT Garden is a 

 large plat, environed with an iron 

 palisade round about next the 

 park, laid all in walks, grass 

 plats, and borders. Next to the house, some 

 flat and broad beds are set with narrow rows 

 of dwarf box, in figures like lace-patterns. In 

 one of the lesser gardens is a large green 

 house divided into several rooms, and all of 

 them with stoves under them, and fire to keep 



* Communicated to the Society of Antiquaries by 

 the Reverend Dr. Hamilton, Vice-President, from an 

 original manuscript in his possession. Read July 3rd, 

 J 794- [This is the narrative by Gibson, to which I 

 have referred more than once in the text.] 



