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a continual heat. In these there are no orange 

 or lemon trees, or myrtles, or any greens, but 

 such tender foreign ones that need continual 

 warmth. 



2. Kensington Gardens are not great nor 

 abounding with fine plants. The orange, 

 lemon, myrtles, and what other trees they had 

 there in summer, were all removed to Mr. Lon- 

 don's and Mr. Wise's greenhouse at Brompton 

 Park, a little mile from them. But the walks 

 and grass laid very fine, and they were digging 

 up a flat of four or five acres to enlarge their 

 garden. 



3. The Queen Dowager's Garden, at Ham- 

 mersmith, has a good greenhouse, with a high 

 erected front to the South, whence the roof 

 falls backward. The house is well stored with 

 greens of common kinds ; but the Queen not 

 being for curious plants or flowers, they want 

 of the most curious sorts of greens, and in the 

 garden there is little of value but wall trees ; 

 though the gardener there, Monsieur Hermon 

 Van Guine, is a man of great skill and in- 

 dustry, having raised great numbers of orange 

 and lemon trees by inoculation, with myrtles, 

 Roman bayes, and other greens of pretty 

 shapes, which he has to dispose of. 



4. Beddington Garden, at present in the 



