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pedestals on the top of it, and so is the fish- 

 pond with the greens at the head of it. 



9. Sir William Temple, being lately gone 

 to live at his house in Farneham, his garden 

 and greenhouse at West Sheene, where he has 

 lived of late years, are not so well kept as they 

 have been, many of his orange trees, and other 

 greens, being given to Sir John Temple, his 

 brother, at East Sheene, and other gentlemen; 

 but his greens that are remaining (being as 

 good a stock as most greenhouses have) are 

 very fresh and thriving, the room they stand in 

 suiting well with them and being well con- 

 trived, if it be no defect in it that the floor is 

 a foot at least within the ground, as is also the 

 floor of the dwelling-house. He had attempted 

 to have orange trees to grow in the ground (as 

 at Beddington), and for that purpose had 

 enclosed a square of ten feet wide, with a low 

 brick wall, and sheltered them with wood, but 

 they would not do. His orange trees in 

 summer stand not in any particular square or 

 enclosure, under some shelter, as most others 

 do, but are disposed on pedestals of Portland 

 stone, at equal distance, on a board over 

 against a South wall, where is his best fruit, 

 and fairest walk. 



10. Sir Henry CapelVs garden at Kew has 



