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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 esteemed tho noblest in England,
is a lai-g-c handsome plain, with a grotto and waterworks, Avhich might be made much
more pleasant were the river that passes througli cleansed and raised ; for all is eifcctcd
by mere force,” &c. Hampton P ark, Middlesex, “ formerly a flat naked piece of ground,
noAv planted with sweet rows of lime trees, and the canal for water now near perfected ;
also the harc-park. In the gai'den is a rich and noble fountain, Avith syrens, statues,
&c. cast in copper by EancUi, but no plenty of Avater. The cradle-walk of hornbeam
in the garden is, for the perplexed tAvining of the trees, very observable. There is a
parterre whicli they call Paradise, in which is a pretty banqiictiiig-housc set over a cave
or cellar.”
566. Evehjn in 1662 mentions the folloAving gardens as haAung been visited by him
in that y e a r: — W anstead House, Essex (fig. 177.): “ I went to sec Sir Josiali Child’s
prodigious cost in planting Avalnut-trecs about his scat, and making fishponds some
miles in circuit in Epping Porest in a barren spot, as oftentimes these suddenly
monied men for the most part scat themselves.” In 1822 this magnificent scat Avas
reduced to a mere mass of materials, through tho improvidence of Wellesley Long Pole
Long Wellesley, who became possessed of it by man-iagc. The house was sold in lots,
and the ground let in small portions on building leases.— A. citizen’s garden: “ One
Loader, an anchorsmith in Greenwich, grcAV so rich, as to build a house m the street,
Avith gardens, orangeries, canals, and other magnificence, on a lease. His lather Avas
of the same trade, and an anabaptist.”— Bushncll’s Wells at Enstonc : “ This Bushnell
liad been secretary to Lord Vcrulam. I t is an extraordinary solitude. There he had
two mummies, and a grot, where he lay in a hammock like au Indian. Hence we Avent
to Ditchley, an ancient seat of the Lees,” &c. BushncU’s gardens and watci-works
still exist, and arc shown as curiosities to strangers.— Ham House, and garden of the
Diilce of Lauderdale, Middlesex: “ Inferior to few of tho best villas of Italy itself; the
house furnished like a great prince’s ; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves,_
avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries, and all tliis at the banks ol
the sweetest river in the world, must needs he admirable.”
S ir Hcmi! CapeVs orangery and myrtcium al Kew, “ m ost beautiful ancl perfectly well kept. He; was
contriving^ very high palisadocs of reeds to shade his oranges during the summer, and painting the.se
Lord Spencer’s, Northamptonshire. “ The iron gate opening into the park of very good
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work, wrought in llowers, painted in blue, and gilded. ^ i j Jicddineton the seat of the Carows, Surrey, now decaying, “ heretofore adorned with ample gardens,
and the iftst ¿range trees that had been seen in England, glanted in the oiicn ground, and secured in
winter only by a tabernacle of boards and stoves, &c. standing a hundred and twenty years. Large ancl
eoodlv trees, and laden with fruit, now in decay, as well as the grotto and fountains ; the cabinets and
other curiosities in th e house and abroad being now fallen to a child _ under age, and only kept by a
servant or two from further dilapidation. T h e estate and park about it also in decay. Aub>—'
th e orange trees mentioned i ” ’
brought by him from I
->ntioned by Evcdyn 'w cre planted by Sir Francis Carow a t Beddington, and were
\ Italy • but the editors o fth e Biogr. Britan., edit. 1748, a rt. Raleigh, speaking from
a tradition preserved in th e family, say they were raised by Sir Francis Carew from the seeds of the first
oranges winch were imported into England by Sir W a lte r Raleigh who had married his nicce, the
dauchter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. See an account of this garden m lGi)l, in Archwplog7a,\o].yiw.
The orange trees a t Beddington wore destroyed by th e hard frost in 1739-40. Queen Elizabeth visited
Sir F . Carew in Aug. 1599 ; and Sir Hugh F la t, in his Garden o f Eden, relates a curious anecdote of
opingback the ripening of a cherry tree, for one ol her visits. ^ ^
Surrey. “ Originally a barren warren, bought by Sir Robert Clayton, who built there i
pretcy house, and made such alteration by planting, not only an infinite store of the best fruit, but sc
chanced the natural situation of the hills, valleys, and solitary mountains about it, th a t it ra th e r repre-
scmtcA some foreign country wliich could produce spontaneously pines, firs, cypress, yew, holly, and
iuiiipe r: they were come to th eir perfect growth, with walks, &c. among them. , , , , ,
Allmrie Howards, Surrey. “ Found the garden exactly done to the design ancl plot I had made, with
the crypt through the mountain in tho park, 30 perches in length. Such a Pausilippc (alluding to the
g rot of Pausilippo a t Naples) is nowhere in England besides. The canal was now dig:ging, and the
vineyard planted.”—We visited Albury in 1831, and found a part of the crypt still remaining, though
stopped up at the farther end. A view of Albury is given in Aubrey’s Surrey {Jig. 178,), as it existed in
F-velyn’s time. A new house bas been since built, and the gardens have been entirely altered. (See
L lm K lo n , Berkshire. “ Larly C. skilled to the flowery part, .ny lord to <™setoee
Of planting. Water llagged with calamus, all that can render a country-seat delighttul, and a well-furnished
library in the house.” {Mem. by Bray, i. 432.)
567. During the reign o f William and Mary (1689 to 1702) gardening, SAvitzcr says,
arrived at its liiglicst perfection. King William, Daines Barrington informs us, gave