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apple grown in this country to Charles the Second. He is 

 rejjresented kneeling on one knee in the midst of a broad 

 walk, holding up something very different from our modern 

 " Queen's," to a wrmkled-looking old gentleman in a voluminous 



wig and a snuff- 

 colovired coat, 

 w'ho is attended 

 by a couple of 

 diminutive black 

 and tan lapdogs. 

 The likeness of 

 His Majesty has 

 been happily 

 preserved in the 

 woodcut. 



But although 

 the invention of 



^5=°"^ ' greenhouses had 



a most important 

 bearing on the 



introduction of tender exotics, yet it afforded so httle aid to 

 external decoration, that in 1737, when the famous Philip MUler 

 pubhshed the first edition of his " Gardener's Dictionary," only 

 a small number of the hardy plants now most valued for 

 then beauty had found their way into gardens. We did not 

 even possess the rhododendron and azalea of America, the 

 parents of the most stiikmg of all early flowers, and neither 

 fuchsias nor China-roses had been heard of. A general taste, 

 however, for ornamental gardening had sprung up, and the 



