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so agreeable. He has two houses for greens, 

 but had few in them, all the best being removed 

 to Lambeth. The house is moated about. 



1 8. Mr. Evelyn has a pleasant villa at Defit- 

 ford, a fine garden for walks and hedges 



(especially his holly one, which he writes of in 

 his Sylva), and a pretty little greenhouse, with 

 an indifferent stock in it. In his garden he 

 has four large round philareas, smooth clipped, 

 raised on a single stalk from the ground, a 

 fashion now much used. Part of his garden is 

 very woody and shady for walking ; but his 

 garden, not being walled, has little of the best 

 fruits. 



19. Mr. Waifs house and garden made 

 near Endfield are new; but the garden for 

 the time is very fine, and large and regularly 

 laid out, with a fair fish-pond in the middle. 

 He built a greenhouse this summer with three 

 rooms (somewhat like the archbishop of 

 Canterbury's), the middle with a stove under 

 it, and a sky-light above, and both of them of 

 glass on the foreside, with shutters within, and 

 the roof finely covered with Irish slate. But 

 this fine house is under the same great fault 

 with three before (Numbers 8, 14, 15) : they 

 built it in summer, and thought not of winter ; 

 the dwelling house on the South side interpos- 



