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Next to Wadham, and the Physick Garden, where were two Oxford, 

 large locust trees, and as many platana, and some rare plants l664 ' Oct ' 24 ' 

 under the culture of old Bobart. 



To Alburie to see how that garden proceeded, which I found Albury. 

 exactly don to the designe and plot I had made, with the crypta l67 ' Se ^' 23> 

 thro' the mountaine in the park 30 perches in length. Such 

 a Pausilippe l is no where in England besides. The canall was 

 now digging and the vineyard planted. 



THERE stand in the garden two handsome stone pyramids, Nonesuch, 

 and the avenue planted with rows of fair elms, but the rest 

 of these goodly trees, both of this and of Worcester Park ad- 

 joining, were felled by those destructive and avaricious rebels in 

 the late war, which defaced one of the stateliest seats his Majesty 

 had. 



For the rest, the fore-court is noble, so are the stables ; and Berkeley 

 above all, the gardens, which are incomparable by reason of the House- 

 inequality of the ground, and a pretty piscina. The holly-hedges 

 on the terrace I advised the planting of. 



Above all, are admirable and magnificent the several ample LordSunder- 

 gardens furnished with the choicest fruit, and exquisitely kept. 

 Great plenty of oranges and other curiosities. 



After dinner I walked to Ham, to see the house and garden Ham. 

 of the Duke of Lauderdale, which is indeed inferior to few 

 of the best villas in Italy itself; the house furnished like a 

 great Prince's; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, 

 avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries, and 

 all this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must 

 needs be admirable. 



The gardens are very rare, and cannot be otherwise, having Earl of Es- 

 so skilful an artist to govern them as Mr Cooke, who is, as to s ^ s House 

 the mechanick part, not ignorant in mathematics, and pretends b ury> Herts. 



1 A word adopted by Mr Evelyn for a subterranean passage, from the famous 

 grotto of Pausilippo, at Naples. 



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