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as curious greens, and is as well kept as any 

 about London. His two lentiscus trees (for 

 which he paid forty pounds to Vesprit) are 

 said to be the best in England, not only of 

 their kind, but of greens. He has four white 

 striped hollies, about four feet above their 

 cases, kept round and regular, which cost 

 him five pounds a tree this last year, and six 

 laurustinuses he has, with large round equal 

 heads, which are very flowery and make a fine 

 show. ;His orange trees and other choicer 

 greens stand out in summer in two walks about 

 fourteen feet wide, enclosed with a timber 

 frame about seven feet high, and set with 

 silver firs hedge-wise, which are as high as the 

 frame, and this to secure them from wind and 

 tempest, and sometimes from the scorching 

 sun. His terrace walk, bare in the middle, 

 and grass on either side, with a hedge of 

 rue on one side next a low wall, and a row of 

 dwarf trees on the other, shews very fine, 

 and so do from thence his yew hedges with 

 trees of the same at equal distance, kept in 

 pretty shapes with tonsure. His flowers and 

 fruits are of the best, for the advantage 

 of which two parallel walls, about fourteen 

 feet high, were now raised and almost finished. 

 If the ground were not a little irregular, it 



