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seventeenth century it belonged to Richard Bennett, Esquire, son of Sir 
Thomas Bennett, Lord Mayor of London, 1608. 
— км. 
ing point in the botanical history of Kew Stephen Switzer, writing 
in 1718 (Ichnographia Rustica, vol. 1., p. 58) singles him out as one 
of the chief horticulturists of the time of Charies IT. 
~“ The Right Honourable the Earl of Essex and the Lord Capel amongst i 
Nobles es John Evelyn, Esq., and Sir William Temple amongst the Gentlem 
бине. ts ongst the Poets, and Rose amongst the Gard’ners, made up a great bait 
of the Virtuosos of that Reign. т 
He continues (p. 61) :— 
“The Plantations of the ed —! the Lord vri € bg to be seen at 
‚Кез, over against Brentford. t advance by him herein was the 
bringing 
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Quintinye . The Earliness with hick this lord appeared in Gard’ning, 
merits а тегу ‘great place in this History, and a better Pen than mine to 
draw it.” 
John Evelyn in his “Diary” under date of August 30, 1678, 
writes :— 
* Hence I ура үз КШ улес friend Sir Henry Capel (at Kew), brother to the 
Earle of Ess old timber house, but his garden has the choicest fruit 
N d Süd in Ri. as he is the most industrious and understanding 
The house inhabited by the Prince of Wales must аня been а 
different structure from that which Evelyn saw. From mporary 
prints it was a plain building in the — style tatay: stuecoed 
Again, under date of March 24, 1688, Evelyn writes :— 
* From iq we went to Kew to visit Sir Henry Capel’s, ner orangery а 
. myrtetum are most beautiful, and perfectly well kept. He was ontriving ve eh 
palisados of: mds; to shade his oranges during the summer, and painting those reeds 
J. Gibson wrote— 
“ A short Account of several Gardens near London, with remarks on some par- 
ticulars wherein they excel, or are deficient, upon a view of them in December 
1691.” 
This was read to the Society of Antiquaries, July 3, 1794, and is 
published in vol. xii. of the Archeologi 
He gives the following account of the garden at Kew House :— 
“ Sir Henry Capell’s pue at Kew has as curious greens, and is as well kept as 
any about Lon e; His t € trees (for which he paid forty pounds to 
ersprit) a to be the it in England, not -— т ме еар but of greens. 
He has four ы, striped = lies, — four feet abov s, kept round and 
unds 
. regular, which cost him five poun tree this а са. six laurustinuses 
e-wise, which are as high as the frame, and this to 
S ie rw ind au ope a sometimes from the scorching sun. His terrace 
