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laurel or box, divided the parts of the garden : for instance, 

 " the front garden W* has the largest fountaine," from " the 

 garden of flower trees, and all sorts of herbage," or the one 

 with " grass plotts " from the bowling-green. Occasionally 

 mention is made of " fine greens," and " dwarfs," 1 or oranges 

 and lemons ; a shelter or greenhouse. Or, perhaps, the 

 description of a broad terrace with stone steps ; a wilderness 

 planted with pines ; a grove with alleys cut through ; a pond, 

 a canal, or a fine gateway, varies the recital of her travels and 

 gives a reality to the scenes she recalls. At Mr. Thetwin's, 

 near Stafford, she admires the " fine rows of trees " in the park, 

 " ffirs Scots and Noroway, and y e picanther." She remarks, 

 at Trygothy, in Cornwall, the drawing-room opened into the 

 garden, " w ch has gravell walks round and across, but y e 

 squares are full of goosebery and shrub trees, and looks more 

 like a kitchen-garden." Of Blith, near Worksop, she says, 

 " I eate good fruite there," and she made her first acquaintance 

 with orange-trees at Lady Brook's house in Wiltshire. " Here 

 was fine flowers and greens, Dwarfe-trees and Oring and Lemon 

 trees in rows w th fruite and flowers at once and some ripe, 

 they are y e first oring trees I ever saw." 



She evidently admires gardens in the new French or Dutch 

 style more than the gardens of the last generation. She 

 passes over Haddon, merely observing, " it's a good old house, 

 all built of stone on a hill, and behind it is a ffine grove of 

 high trees and good gardens, but nothing very curious as y e 

 mode now is." Again, of " Mr. Paul Folie's seate called 

 Stoake," near Hereford, she writes : " It's a very good old 

 house of timber worke but old ffashion'd, and good roome for 

 gardens, but all in an old fform and mode and Mr. Folie intends 

 to make both a new house and gardens. The latter I saw 

 staked out . . . y e ffine Bowling-green walled in and a Summer- 

 house in it all new." At Barms tone, in Yorkshire, she notices 

 "the gardens are large, and are capable of being made very 

 ffine, they now remain in the old fashion." Lord Sandwich, 

 near Huntingdon, was having a new garden made. " The 

 gardens and wilderness and greenhouse will be very fine when 

 quite ffinshed, with the dwarf trees and gravell walks. There 

 1 = fruit trees cut small. 



