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Mr. Loudon and Mr. Wise." This hedge protects 

 the orange trees, myrtles, and other rare perennials 

 and exotics from the scorching rays of the sun ; and 

 it equally well shelters the flowers. " Here the 

 Indian Narcissus, Tuberoses, Japan Lillies, Jasmines, 

 Jonquills, Periclimena, Roses, Carnations, with 

 all the pride of the parterre, intermixt between 

 the tree-cases, flowery vases, busts, and statues, 

 entertain the eye, and breathe their redolent odours 

 and perfumes to the smell." Clearly there is an 

 advantage in being a gardener if we write about 

 gardens (provided you are not a mere " landscape- 

 gardener !") 



One cannot deny that Horace Walpole did well 

 to expose the absurd vagaries which were being per- 

 petrated about his time under Dutch influences. 

 Close alliance with Holland through the House of 

 Orange had affected every department of horti- 

 culture. True, it had enriched our gardens and 

 conservatories with many rare and beautiful species 

 of flowers and bulbs, and had imbued the English 

 collector with the tulip-mania. So far good. But 

 to the same source we trace the reign of the 

 shears in the English garden, which made Art in a 

 Garden ridiculous, and gave occasion to the enemy to 

 blaspheme. 



" The gardeners about London," says Mr. Lam- 

 bert, writing to the Linnsean Transactions in 1712, 

 " were remarkable for fine cut greens, and dipt yews 

 in the shapes of birds, dogs, men, ships, &c. Mr. 

 Parkinson in Lambeth was much noticed for these 



