I have made a vast plantation. Lord Leicester told me 

 the other day that he heard I would not buy some old 

 china, because I was laying out all my money in trees: 

 "Yes," said I, "my lord, I used to love blue trees, but 

 now I like green ones." 



— ^HoBACE Walpole to Sib Horace Mann, Strawberry 

 Hill, May 3, 1749. 



