on horseback at one end of the table and the queen 

 in perpetual youth at the other. 



For the benefit of all my loving countrymen 

 of this curious taste, I shall here publish a cata- 

 logue of greens to be disposed of by an eminent 

 town gardener who has lately applied to me upon 

 this head. He represents that for the advance- 

 ment of a politer sort of ornament in the villas 

 and gardens adjacent to this great city, and in 

 order to distinguish those places from the mere 

 barbarous countries of gross nature, the world 

 stands much in need of a virtuoso gardener who 

 has a turn to sculpture, and is thereby capable of 

 improving upon the ancients of his profession in 

 the imagery of evergreens. My correspondent is 

 arrived to such perfection that he cuts family pieces 

 of men, women or children. Any ladies that please 

 may have their own effigies in myrtle, or their 

 husbands' in hornbeam. He is a puritan wag, and 

 never fails, when he shows his garden, to repeat 

 that passage in the Psalms: "Thy wife shall be as 

 the fruitful vine, and thy children as olive branches 

 around thy table." I shall proceed to his cata- 

 logue, as he sent it for my recommendation : 



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