296 ASPLEY COTTAGE. 



of this singular building has been solely committed, 

 and it is hoped will remain a curious record, when 

 time shall have destroyed those specimens from 

 which the original hints have been selected. 



" The garden, to accord with the style of the Cot- 

 tage, is proposed to be unlike modern landscape 

 gardening; but as no specimens exist of such 

 gardens, or even the fence by which they were 

 inclosed, the rail in front is copied from one in an 

 old painting of Henry VIII. , in the Council Room of 

 the Antiquarian Society ; and the dipt hedges, 

 mazes, and parterres, are taken from prints of 

 Hans Holbein, and various pictures of the same 

 date. 



" Among the flowers preserved in very old Gar- 

 dens, are still to be found the following, which have, 

 therefore, been particularly chosen — viz. Rosemary, 

 Columbine, Crowfoot, Clove-Pinks, Marigold, Dou- 

 ble-Daisy, Monkshood, Southernwood, Pansies, 

 White Rose, Yellow Lillies, Turk's Cap, &c." 



