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A MONGST the rest, the pains and industry of an ancient JOHN TAYLOR 

 ** gentleman, Mr Adrian Gilbert, must not be forgotten : for POET >j^ ATER 

 there 1 hath he (much to my Lord's cost and his own pains) used (1580-1654). 

 such a deal of intricate setting, grafting, planting, inoculating, 

 railing, hedging, plashing, turning, winding, and returning, circular, 

 triangular, quadrangular, orbicular, oval, and every way curiously 

 and chargeably conceited : there hath he made walks, hedges, and 

 arbours, of all manner of most delicate fruit-trees, planting and 

 placing them in such admirable art-like fashions, resembling both 

 divine and moral remembrances, as three arbours standing in a 

 triangle, having each a recourse to a greater arbour in the midst, 

 resembleth three in one and one in three: and he hath there 

 planted certain walks and arbours all with fruit-trees, so pleasing 

 and ravishing tn the sense, that he calls it Paradise, in which he 

 plays the part of a true Adamist, continually toiling and tilling. 



Moreover, he hath made his walks most rarely round and 

 spacious, one walk without another (as the rinds of an onion 

 are greatest without, and less towards the centre), and withall, 

 the hedges betwixt each walk are so thickly set that one cannot 

 see through from the one walk, who walks in the other : that, 

 in conclusion, the work seems endless; and I think that in 

 England it is not to be fellowed, or will in haste be followed. 

 Of the Gardens at Wilton. 



A Moravian Minister : settled in Poland, published 'Jamta Linguarum'' JOHN AMOS 

 was invited to England: travelled in Sweden and finally settled in COMENIUS 

 Amsterdam: author of ' Orbis Sensualium Pictus* ( I 59 2 ' I 67 1 )- 



/^ARDENING is practised for food's sake in a kitchen garden 

 ^* and orchard, or for pleasure's sake in a green grass-plot 

 and an arbour. 



The pleacher (Topiarins) prepares a green plot of the more 

 choice flowers and rarer plants, and adorns the garden with 

 pleach- work ; that is with pleasant walks and bowers, etc., to 

 conclude with water-works. ' Janua Trilinguis? 



1 At Wilton, the seat of the Earl Pembroke. (See Illustration in Appendix.) 



