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the peach and apricot dwarf standards, which, 

 they say, supply them plentifully with very 

 good fruit. There is a very good fish-pond in 

 the middle of it, from which a broad gravel 

 walk leads to the highway, where a fair pair 

 of broad gates, with a narrower on either side, 

 open at the top to look through small bars, 

 well wrought and well painted, are a great 

 ornament to the garden. They have orange 

 and lemon trees ; but the wife and son being 

 the managers of the garden (the husband 

 being gouty and not minding it), they cannot 

 prevail for a house for them other than a barn 



23. Captain Foster's garden at Lambeth 

 has many curiosities in it. His greenhouse 

 is full of fresh and flourishing plants, and 

 before it is the finest striped holly hedge that 

 perhaps is in England. He has many myrtles, 

 not the greatest, but of the most fanciful 

 shapes that are any where else. He has a 

 framed walk of timber covered with vines, 

 which, with others, running on most of his 

 walls without prejudice to his lower trees, 

 yield him a deal of wine. Of flowers he has 

 good choice, and his Virginia and other birds 

 in a great variety, with his glass hive, add 

 much to the pleasure of his garden. 



