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would excel in other points, as well as in 

 furniture. 



11. Sir Stephen Fox's garden at Chiswick 

 being but of five years' standing, is brought to 

 great perfection for the time. It excells for a 

 fair gravel walk betwixt two yew hedges, with 

 rounds and spires of the same, all under 

 smooth tonsure. At the far end of this garden 

 are two myrtle hedges that cross the garden ; 

 they are about three feet high, and covered in 

 winter with painted board cases. The other 

 gardens are full of flowers and salleting, and 

 the walls well clad. The greenhouse is well 

 built, well set, and well furnished. 



12. Sir Thomas Cooke 's garden at Hackney 

 is very large, and not so fine at present, be- 

 cause of his intending to be at three thousand 

 pounds' charge with it this next summer, as his 

 gardener said. There are two greenhouses in 

 it, but the greens are not extraordinary, for 

 one of the roofs being made a receptacle for 

 water, overcharged with weight, fell down last 

 year upon the greens, and made a great de- 

 struction among the trees and pots. In one 

 part of it is a warren, containing about two 

 acres, very full of coneys, though there was 

 but a couple put in a few years since. There 

 is a pond or a mote round about them, and on 



