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clergyman, and a great lover of gardening, Mr. Gardiner, 

 Sub-Dean of Lincoln." He became afterwards (I believe) 

 Bishop of Lincoln; and a Latin epitaph on this bishop is in 

 Peck's Desid. Curiosa. There is a print of " Jacobus Gar- 

 diner, Episc. Lincoln,' 3 engraved by George White, from 

 after Dahl. 



SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. The portraits of this worthy man 

 are numerous. Vanderbane's engraving, from Sir Peter 

 Lely's, is particularly fine. Vertue's engravings, from Sir 

 Peter, in the folio editions of 1720 and 1740, are also fine. 

 This same portrait is neatly engraved in the late Mr. Nichol's 

 Collection of Poems. Houbraken has also engraved the same 

 for Birch's Lives. Sir William Temple, after spending 

 twenty years in negociations with foreign powers, retired in 

 1680 from public life, and employed his time in literary pur- 

 suits. He was ambassador for many years at the court of 

 Holland, and there acquired his knowledge and taste in gar- 

 dening. He had a garden at Sheen, and afterwards, another 

 at Moor Park, where he died in 1700; and though his body 

 was buried in Westminster Abbey, his heart was enclosed in 

 a silver urn under a sun-dial in the latter garden. His Essay 

 " Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, or of Gardening in the 

 year 1685," is printed in all the editions of his works.* 

 These works are published in 2 vols. folio, and 4 vols. 8vo. 

 Switzer, in his History of Gardening, first published in 1715, 

 says, " That he was a great lover of gardening, appears by 

 his own writings, and several kinds of fruit brought over by 

 him out of Holland, &c. as well as by the testimony of his 

 neighbours yet living, the greatest consolation of his life 

 being, in the lucid intervals he had from public employs, in 



* In this delightful essay, he says, " the most exquisite delights of sense 

 are pursued, in the contrivance and plantation of gardens, which, with fruits, 

 flowers, shades, fountains, and the music of birds that frequent such happy 

 places, seem to furnish all the pleasures of the several senses." 



