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HISTORY OF GARDENING. 



Part I. 



lord (E5ssex) jn planting about his seat, adorned with walks, ponds, and other rural elegancies." — " The 

 gardens are very rare, and cannot be otherwise, having so skilful an artist to govern them as Cooke, who 

 is, as to the mechanical part, not ignorant in mathematics, and pretends to astrology. There is an excellent 

 collection of the choicest fruit My lord not illiterate beyond the rate of most noblemen of this age." 



Wilton, Lord Pembroke's, Wiltshire. " The garden, heretofore estoemsd the noblest in England, is a 

 large handsome plain, ^vith a grotto and water-works, which might be made much more pleasant were 

 the river that passes through cleansed and raised ; for all is efiected by mere force," &c. 



Hampton Park, IMiddlcsex, " formerly a flat naked piece of ground, how planted with sweet rows of lime, 

 trees, and the canal for water now near perfected ; also the hare-park. In the garden is a rich and noble 

 fountain, with s>Tens, statues, 8cc. cast in copoer by FaneUi, but no plenty of water. The cradle-walk of 

 hornbeam in the garden is, for the perplexed twining of the trees, very observable. There is a parterre 

 which they call Paradise, in which is a pretty banquetting-house set over a cave or cellar." 



16G2. A citizen's garden. " One Loader, an anchorsmith in Greenwich, grew so rich as to build a house 

 in the street, with gardens, orangeries, canals, and other magnificence, on a lease. His father was cf the 

 •ame trade, and an anabaptist." 



BushneWs Wells at Enstone. " This Bushnell had been secretary to Lord Verulam. It is an extraor- 

 dinary solitude. There he had two mummies, and a grot, %vhcre he lay in a hammoc hke an Indian. 

 Hence we went to Ditchley, an ancient seat of the Lees," &c. — Bushnell's gardens and water-works 

 etill exist, and are shown as curiosities to strangers. 



Ham House, and garden of the Duke of Lauderdale, Middlesex, "inferior to few of the best villas of 

 Italy itself, tlie house furnished like a great prince's ; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, 

 avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries, and all this at tlie banks of the sweetest river 

 in the world, must needs be admirable." 



Wansted House, Essex, {Jig. 50.) " Sir Josiah Child's prodigious cost in planting walnut-trees about his 

 soat, and making fish-ponds some miles in circuit in Epping-forest, in a barren spot, as oftentimes th»jsc 



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suddenly monied men for the most part seat themselves." — In 1822 this magnificent seat was reduced to a 



mere mass of materials, through the improvidence of "VVellesley Long Pole, who became possessed of it bj 

 marriage. The house was sold in lots, and the ground let in small portions on building leases. 



Sir Henry Capcll's orangery and tni/rtitieum at Kew, " most beautiful and perfectly well kept. He was 

 contriving very high palisadoes of reeds to shade his oranges during the summer, and painting these reeds 

 in oil " 



Althorp, Lord Northampton's, Northamptonshire. " The iron gate opening into the park of very good 

 work, wrought in flowers, painted in blue, and gilded." 



Bcddington, the seat of the Carews, Surrey, now decaying, " heretofore adorned with ample gardens, and 

 tlie first orange-trees that had been seen in England, planted in the open ground, and secured in winter 

 only by a tabernacle of boards and stoves, &c. standing a hundred and twenty years. Large and goodly 

 trees, and laden with fruit, now in decay, as well as the grotto and fountains. The cat-Inets and other 

 curiosities in the house and abroad being nov/ fallen to a child under age, and only kept by a servant or 

 two from further dilapidation. The estate and park about it also in decay." 



Marsden, Surrey. " Originally a barren waiTen, bought by Sir Robert Clayton, who built there a pretty 

 house, and made such alteration by planting, not only an infinite store of the best fruit, but so changed the 

 natural situation of the hills, valleys, and solitary mountains about it, that it rather represented some 

 foreign countrj' which could produce spontaneously pines, firs, cypress, yew, hclly, and juniper ; they were 

 come to their perfect growth, %vith walks, &c. among them." . ' 



Alburie Howards, Surrey. " Found the garden exactly done to the design and plot I had made, with the 

 crj'pt through the mountain in the park, SO perches in length. Such a Pausilliipe (alluding to the grot of 

 PausOippo at Naples) is no where in England besides. The canal was now digging, and the vineyard 

 planted." — This cryiit was in part remaining in 1816, but stopped up at the further end. 



Swalloufield, Lady Clarendon, Berkshire. " Lady C. skilled in the flowery part, my lord in diligence of 



Elanting. Water flagged with calamus, all that can' render a cotmtry-seat delightful, and a well furnished 

 brary in the house." {Mem. by Bray, i. 462.) 



328. During the same reign (Charles II.) notes were made on some of the gardens round 

 London by J. Gibson, -which have been subsequently published in the Archteologia. 

 (vol. xii.) Many of those mentioned by Evelyn are included, and spoken of in nearly the 

 same terms by Gibson. Terrace-walks, hedges of evergreens, shorn shrubs in boxes, and 

 orange and myrtle trees are mentioned as their chief excellencies. The parterre at Hampton 

 Court is said to resemble a set of lace patterns. Evelyn himself is said to have a " pleasant 



