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walks, all the rare fhrubs, flowers and trees of the torrid 

 zone; which they cover, during the winter, with frames 

 of glafs, difpofed in the forms of temples, and other 

 elegant buildings. Thefe they call confervatiories ; they 

 are warmed by fubterraneous fires, and afford a com- 

 fortable and agreeable retreat, when the weather is too 

 cold to walk in the open air. All forts of beautiful and 

 melodious birds are let loofe in them : and they keep 

 there, in large porcelain citterns, placed on artificial 

 rocks, gold and filver fifties; with various kinds of 

 aquatic plants and flowers : they alfo raife in them ftraw- 

 berries, cherries, figs, grapes, apricots and peaches, which 

 cover the wood work of their glafs frames, and ferve for 

 ornament as well as ufe. 



Their fcenes of fpring likewife abound with evergreens, 

 intermixed with lilacks of all forts, laburnums, limes, 

 larixes, double bloflbmed thorn, almond and peach-trees; 

 with fweet-bryar, early rofes, and honey-fuckles. The 

 ground, and verges of the thickets and fhrubberies, are 

 adorned with wild hyacinths, wall-flowers, daffodils, 



violets., 



