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laurel or box, divided the parts of the garden : for instance, 
“ the front garden w° h has the largest fountaine,” from “ the 
garden of flower trees, and all sorts of herbage,” or the one 
with “ grass plotts ” from the bowling-green. Occasionally 
mention is made of “ fine greens,” and “ dwarfs,” 1 or oranges 
and lemons; a shelter or greenhouse. Or, perhaps, the 
description of a broad terrace with stone steps ; a wilderness 
planted with pines ; a grove with alleys cut through ; a pond, 
a canal, or a fine gateway, varies the recital of her travels and 
gives a reality to the scenes she recalls. At Mr. Thetwin’s, 
near Stafford, she admires the “ fine rows of trees ” in the park, 
“ ffirs Scots and Noroway, and y e picanther.” She remarks, 
at Trygothy, in Cornwall, the drawing-room opened into the 
garden, “ w ch has graved walks round and across, but y e 
squares are full of goosebery and shrub trees, and looks more 
like a kitchen-garden.” Of Blith, near Worksop, she says, 
“ I eate good fruite there,” and she made her first acquaintance 
with orange-trees at Lady Brook’s house in Wiltshire. “ Here 
was fine flowers and greens, Dwarf e-trees and Oring and Lemon 
trees in rows w th fruite and flowers at once and some ripe, 
they are y e first oring trees I ever saw.” 
She evidently admires gardens in the new French or Dutch 
style more than the gardens of the last generation. She 
passes over Haddon, merely observing, “ it’s a good old house, 
all built of stone on a hill, and behind it is a fhne grove of 
high trees and good gardens, but nothing very curious as y e 
mode now is.” Again, of “ Mr. Paul Folie’s seate called 
Stoake,” near Hereford, she writes : “ It’s a very good old 
house of timber worke but old ffashion’d, and good roome for 
gardens, but all in an old fform and mode and Mr. Folie intends 
to make both a new house and gardens. The latter I saw 
staked out . . . y e fhne Bowling-green walled in and a Summer¬ 
house in it all new.” At Barmstone, in Yorkshire, she notices 
“ the gardens are large, and are capable of being made very 
fhne, they now remain in the old fashion.” Lord Sandwich, 
near Huntingdon, was having a new garden made. “ The 
gardens and wilderness and greenhouse will be very fine when 
quite fhnshed, with the dwarf trees and gravell walks. There 
1 — fruit trees cut small . 
