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Romano, and M. Angelo, (which last planted the fa- 

 mous cypresses in the garden of the Villa d'Este) 

 were consulted on the decorations of some of the old 

 Italian ones ; these pages at once shew the fascinating 

 charms of his classic pen.* 



England can boast too of very great names, who 

 have been attached to this art, and most zealously 

 patronized it, though they have not written on the 

 subject : Lord Burleigh, Lord Hudson, Sir Walter 

 Raleigh, Lord Capell, who honoured himself by seve- 

 ral years correspondence with La Quintinye; William 

 the Third, for Switzer tells us, that "in the least 

 interval of ease, gardening took up a greater part of 

 his time, in which he was not only a delighter, but 

 likewise a great judge," the Earl of Essex, whom the 

 mild and benevolent Lord William Russell said " was 

 the worthiest, the justest, the sincerest, and the most 

 concerned for the public, of any man he ever knew ;" 

 Lord William Russell himself, too, on whom Thom- 

 son says, 



Bring every sweetest flower, aad let me strew 

 The grave where Russell lies, 



whose fall Switzer feelingly laments, as one of the 

 best of masters, and encouragers of arts and sciences, 



* Mr. Worlidge, who wrote during part of the reigns of Charles 

 II. and James II. judiciously observes, that " the glory of the 

 French palaces, often represented to our English eyes in sculpture, 

 are adorned with their beauteous gardens before them ; which want- 

 ing, they would seem without lustre or grandeur." 



