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to plants, but with great charge he forces 

 Nature to obey him. His gardens are big 

 enough, but strangely irregular, his chief walk 

 not being level, but rising in the middle and 

 falling much more at one end than the other ; 

 neither is the wall carried by a line either on 

 the top or sides, but runs like an ordinary park 

 wall, built as the ground goes. He built a 

 good greenhouse, but set it so that the hills in 

 winter keep the sun from it, so that they place 

 their greens in a house on higher ground not 

 built for that purpose. His dwelling-house 

 stands very low, surrounded with great hills ; 

 and yet they have no water but what is forced 

 from a deep well into a waterhouse, whence 

 they are furnished by pipes at pleasure. 



15. The Archbishop of Canterbury's garden 

 at Lambeth has little in it but walks, the late 

 archbishop not delighting in one, but they 

 are now making them better; and they have 

 already made a greenhouse, one of the finest 

 and costliest about the town. It is of three 

 rooms, the middle having a stove under it ; the 

 foresides of the rooms are almost all glass, the 

 roof covered with lead, the whole part (to 

 adorn the building) rising gravel-wise higher 

 than the rest ; but it is placed so near Lam- 

 beth church, that the sun shines most on it in 



