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popular.* These absurdities, in their ruin, 

 earned away all the Italian ornaments that 

 were mixed with them. The revolution, 

 therefore,which together with King William, 



* With regard to such topiary works, as they are called, 

 there is a very curious passage in a Latin poem of Pontami* 

 de hortis Hesperidum. After giving rules for the prepara- 

 tion and fencing of the ground, he says, 



Infode debinc teneram prolem, et sere tramite certo, 

 Et vinclis obstringe, obeunda ut munera diseant 

 A pueris, sed quisque suo spatioque, locoque. 

 Inde ubi, et assiduo cultuque operuque magistri 

 Porrigit et ranios, et frondes explicat arbos, 

 Ad munus lege quamque suum, et dispone riguras ; 

 Gratum opus, infortnemque gregem ad speciosa vbcatoi 

 Ha?c al tarn in turrim, aut in propugnacula surgat ; 

 Haec arcum intendatque et spicula trudat ; at ilia 

 Muniat et vallo fossas, et masnia cingat. 

 Ilia tub;! armatos crat, et vocet agmen ad arma; 

 Altera tormento lapides jaculetur aheno, 

 Discutiat castella, et ruptis agmina muris 

 Immittat, fractaque acies (immane) ruina. 

 Irrumpat, portis et congrediatur apertis, 

 Diruat et captain irrumpens exercitus urbein. 



When we consider that the performers in this grand siege 

 are trees, which in. their natural state are called a shapeless 

 crowd, we shall be apt to exclaim immane! with the au- 

 thor : a word, which though totally useless in his verse, 

 would be aptly used to express our surprize at such a por- 

 tentous garden. 



