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indifferent plant, which grows well enough in 

 the ground. Their greenhouse is very well, 

 and their greenyard excels ; but their greens 

 were not so bright and clean as farther off in 

 the country, as if they suffered something from 

 the smutty air of the town. 



8. My Lord FauconbergKs Garden, at 

 Sutton Court, has several pleasant walks and 

 apartments in it; but the upper garden next 

 the house is too irregular, and the bowling 

 green too little to be commended. The green- 

 house is very well made, but ill set. It is 

 divided into three rooms, and very well fur- 

 nished with good greens ; but it is so placed, 

 that the sun shines not on the plants in winter, 

 where they most need its beams, the dwelling- 

 house standing betwixt the sun and it. The 

 maze or wilderness there is very pretty, being 

 set all with greens, with a cypress arbour in 

 the middle, supported with a well-wrought 

 timber frame ; of late it grows thin at the 

 bottom, by their letting the fir trees grow 

 without their reach undipped. The enclosure 

 wired-in for white pheasants and partridges 

 is a fine apartment, especially in summer, 

 when the boxes of Italian bayes are set out, 

 and the timber walk with vines on the side 

 is very fine when the blew pots are on the 



