6. MY LORD RANELAGH'S GARDEN being but lately made, the plants are but (mall; but the plats, borders, and walks, are curiously kept and elegantly defigned, having the advantage of opening into Chelfea College walks. The kitchen garden there lies very fine, with walks and feats, one of which, being large and covered, was then under the hands of a curious painter. The boule there is very fine within, all the rooms being wainscoted with Norway oak, and all the chimnies adorned with carving, as in the council-chamber in Chelfea College. 7. ARLINGTON GARDEN, being now in the hands of my Lord of Devonfire, is a fair plat, with good walks both airy and fhady. There are fix of the greatest earthen pots that are any where elfe, being at least two feet over within the edge; but they ftand abroad, and have nothing in them but the tree holy-oke, an indifferent plant which grows well enough in the ground. Their green-house is very well, and their green-yard excels; but their greens were not so bright and clean as farther off in the country, as if they fuffered fomething from the fmutty air of the town. S. MY LORD FAUCONBERGH'S GARDEN, at Sutton Court, has feveral pleafant walks and apartments in it but the upper garden next the house is too irregular, and the bowling greea too little to be commended. The greens houfe is very well made, but ill fet. It is divided into three rooms, and very well furnished with good greens; but it is fo placed, that the fun shines not on the plants in winter when they most need its beams, the dwelling-houfe ftanding betwixt the fun and it. The maze or wilderness there is very pretty, being fet all with greens, with a cyprefs arbour in the middle, fupported with a well-wrought timber frame; of late it grows thin at the bottom, by their let ting the fir-trees grow without their reach unclipped. The inclofure wired in for white pheafants and partridges is a fine apartment, efpecially in fummer, when the bones of Italian bayes are fet out, and the timber walk with vines on the fide is very fine, when the blue pots are on the pedeftals on the top of it, and fo is the fish-pond with the greens at the head of it. 9. SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE being lately gone to live at his houfe in Farn ham,his garden and green-house at Weft Sheene, where he has lived of late years, Arlington House and Gardens were fituated at the North Eaft corner of the Green Park, Where Arlington-street ftands. See in Dryden's Mifcellanies a Latin descriptive poem entitled, "Horti Arlingtoniani ad Cl. Dom Henricum Comitem Arlingtonia by Charles Dryden, tranflated by Samuel Boyfe in his Poems 8vo, 1738. Both the criginal and tranflation are Ho in Nichols's Collection of Poems, Vol. II, p. 156. + Afterwards the property of the Earl of Burlington, and now of the Duke of Devonthire. Sir Willam Temple, in his Effay on Gardening, fays, "the prefent way and humour of our gardening in England, seems to have grown into fuch vogue, and to have been so might ly improved in three or four and twenty years of his Majesty's reign, that perhaps few countries are before us, either in the elegance of our gardens, or in the number of our plants; and I believe none equals us in the variety of fruits which may be justly called good; and from the earliest cherry and ftrawberry, to the laft apples and pears, may furnish every day of the circling year. For the tafte and perfection of what we esteem the best I may truly fay, that the French who have eaten my peaches and grapes at Sheen in no very ill year have generally concluded, that the laft are as good as any they have eaten in France, on this fide Fontainbleau; and the first as good as any they have eat in Gafcony; I mean those which come from the ftone, and are properly called peaches, not those which are hard and are termed pavies; for thefe cannot grow in too warm a climate, nor ever be good in a cold; and are better at Madrid than in Gafcony itself. Italians have agreed my white figs to be as good as any of that fort in Italy, which is the earlier kind of white fig there; for in the latter kind and the blue, we cannot come near the warm climates no more than in the Frontignac or mufcal grape. "My orange trees are as large as any I saw when I was young in France, except thofe of Fontaignebleau or what I have seen fince in the Low Countries, except fome very old ones of the years, are not fo well kept as they have been, many of his orange trees, and other greens, being given to Sir John Temple, his brother at Eaft Sheene, and other gentlemen; but his greens that are remaining (being as good a ftock as moft green houfes have) are very fresh and thriving, the room they fand in fuiting well with them, and being well contrived, if it be no defect in it, that the floor is a foot at least within the ground, as is alfo the floor of the dwelling-houfe. He had attempted to have orange trees to grow in the ground (as at Beddington), and for that purpofe had encloted a fquare of ten feet wide with a low brick wall, and sheltered them with wood, but they would not do. His orange trees in fummer ftand not in any particular fquare or enclofure, under fome shelter, as moft others do, but are difpofed on pedestals of Portland tone, at equal dif. tance, on a board over-against a South wail, where is his beft fruit, and faireft walk. 10. SIR HENRY CAPELL'S GARDEN at Kew has as curious greens, and is as well kept, as any about London. His two lentifcus trees (for which he paid forty pounds to Verfprit) are laid to be the best in England, not only of their kind, but of greens. He has four white striped hollies, about four feet above their cafes, kept round and regular, which cott him hive pounds a tree this last year; and fix lauruftinufes he has, with large round equal heads, which are very flowery and make a fine fhow. His orange trees about fourteen feet wide, enclofed with a timber frame about feven feet high, and fet with filver firs hedge-wife, which are as high as the frame, and this to fecure them from wind and tempeft, and fometimes from the fcorching fun. His terrace-waik bare in the middle, and grafs on either fide, with a hedge of rue on one fide next a low wall, and a row of dwarf trees on the other, thews very fine; and fo do, from thence, his yew hedges, with trees of the fame at equal distance, kept in pretty thapes with tonfure. His flowers and fruits are of the beft, for the advantage of which two parallel walls, about 14 feet high, were raifed and almoft finished. If the ground were not a little irregular, it would ex cel in other points as well as in furai ture. 11. SIR STEPHEN FOX'S GARDEN at Chifwick +, being of but five years fand ing, is brought to great perfection for the time. It excels for a fair gravel walk betwixt two yew hedges, with rounds and fpires of the fame, all under fimooth tonfure. At the far end of this garden are two myrtle hedges that cross the garden; they are about three feet high, and covered in winter with painted board cafes. The other gardens are full of flowers and falleting, and the walls well clad. The green-houfe is well built, well fet, and well furnished. 12. SIR THOMAS COOKE'S GARDEN at Hackney is very large, and not fo fine at prefent, because of his intending to be at three thoufand pounds charge with it this next fummer, as his gardener faid. There are two green-houfes in it, but the greens are not extraordinary; for one of the roofs being made a recepta cle for water, overcharged with weight, fell down laft year upon the greens, and made a great deftruction among the trees and pots. In one part of it is a warren, containing about two acres, and very full of coneys, though there was but a couple put in a few years fince. There is a pond or a mote round about them, and on the outfide of that a brick wall four feet high, both which I think will not keep them within their compafs. There is a large fith-pond lying on the South to a brick wall, which is finely clad with philaria. Water brought from far in pipes furnishes his feveral ponds as they want it. 13. SIR JOSIAH CHILD'S PLANTATIONS of walnut and other trees at Wanfted, are much more worth feeing than his gardens, which are but indifferent. Befides the great number of fruit trees he has planted in his encle fures with great regularity, he has vaft number of elms, alhes, lines, &c. planted in rows on Epping Foreft. Before his outgate, which is above twelve fcore feet diftance from his houfe, are two large fifh-ponds on the the Prince of Orange's; as laden with flowers as any can well be, as full of fruit as I fuffer of defire them, and as well tafted as are commonly brought over, except the best fort of Selie and Portugal." Temple's Works, Vol. III. p. 218. This now belongs to his Majesty." Now the property of Robert Stevenson, Efq. foreft forèft, in the way from his houfe, with trees on either fide lying betwixt them; in the middle of either pond is an island betwixt twenty and thirty yards over, and in the middle of each a houfe, the one like the other. They are faid to be well Rocked with fish, and fo they had need to be, if they coft him 5000l. as it is faid they did; as alfo that his plan tations coft twice as much. 14. SIR ROBERT CLAYTON has great plantation at Marden in Surrey, in a foil not very benign to plants; but with great charge he forces Nature to obey him. His gardens are big enough, but ftrangely irregular, his chief walk not being level, but rifing in the middle, and falling much more at one end than the other; neither is the wall carried by a line either on the top or fides, but runs like an ordinary park wall, built as the ground goes. He built a good green-house; but fet it fo, that the hills in winter keep the fun from it; fo that they place their greens in a houfe on higher ground not built for that purpofe. His dwelling-houfe ftands very low, furrounded with great hills; and yet they have no water, but what is forced from a deep well into a waterhoufe, whence they are furnished by pipes at pleasure. 15. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S GARDEN at Lambeth has little in it but walks, the late Archbishop * not delighting in one; but they are now making them better; and they have already made a green-houfe, one of the fineft and costlieft about the town. It is of three rooms, the middle having a stove under it; the forefides of the rooms aré almost all glafs,the roof covered with lead the whole part (to adorn the building) rifing gavel-wife higher than the reft, but it is placed fo near Lambeth church, that the fun fhines most on it in winter after eleven o'clock; a fault owned by the gardener, but not thought on by the contrivers. Most of the greens are oranges and lemons, which have very large ripe fruits on them. 16. DR. UEVDALE, OF ENFIELD, is a great lover of plants, and, having an extraordinary art in managing them, is become mafter of the greatest and choiceft collection of exotic greens that • Sancroft. is perhaps any where in this land, His greens take up fix or seven houfes or roomsteads. His orange trees and largeft myrtles fill up his biggest houfe, and another houfe is filled with myrtles of a lefs fize; and thofe more nice and curious plants that need clofer keeping are in warmer rooms, and fome of them ftoved when he thinks fit. His flowers are choice, his stock numerous, and his culture of them very methodical and curious; but, to fpeak of the garden in the whole, it does not lie fine to please the eye; his delight and care lying more in the ordering particular plants, than in the pleafing view and form of his garden. 17. DR. TILLOTSON'S GARDEN near Enfield + is a pleafurable place for walks, and fome good walls there are too; but the tall afpin trees, and the many ponds in the heart of it, are not so agreeable. He has two houses for greens, but had few in them, all the reft being removed to Lambeth. The houfe moated about. 18. MR. EVELYN has a pleasant villa at Deptford, a fine garden for walks and hedges (efpecially his holly one, which he writes of in his Sylva), and a pretty little green-houfe with an indifferent flock in it. In his garden he has four large, round philareas, fmooth clipped, raised on a fingle stalk from the ground, a fashion now much used. Part of his garden is very woody and fhady for walking; but his garden not being walled has little of the beft fruits. He 19. MR. WATTS'S HOUSE AND GARDEN made near Enfield are new ; but the garden for the time is very fine, and large, and regularly laid out, with a fair fh-pond in the middle. built a green-houfe this fummer with three rooms (fomewhat like the Archbishop of Canterbury's), the middle with a ftove under it and a fkylight above, and both of them of glafs on the forefide, with fhutters within, and the roof finely covered with Irish flate. But this fine houfe is under the fame great fault with three before (Numbers 8, 14, 15): they built it in fummer, and thought not of winter; the dwel + Dr. Tillotson's house and gardens were at Edmonton, whither he occasionally reforted after he became Archbishop of Canterbury. Thefe premises are now in the poffeffion of Captain Dorrien. Vol. XXX. AUG. 1796. N ling ling-houfe on the fouth fide interpofing betwixt the fun and it, now when its beams fhould refresh plants. 20. BROMPTON PARK GARDEN *, belonging to Mr. London and Mr. Wife, has large long green-houfe, the front all glafs and board, the North fide brick. Here the King's greens, which were in Summer at Kennington, are placed; but they take but little room in comparifon of their own. Their garden is chiefly a nursery for all forts of plants, of which they are very full. 21. MR. RAYNTON'S GARDEN at Endfield is obfervable for nothing but his green-house, which he has had for many years. His orange, lemnon, and myrtle trees are as full and furnished as any in cafes. He has a myrtle cut in fhape of a chaife, that is at least fix feet high from the cafe, but the lower part is thin of leaves. The rest of the gar. den is very ordinary, and on the outside of his garden he has a warren, which makes the ground about his feat lie rudely, and fometimes the coneys work under the wall into the garden. 22. MR. RICHARDSON at Eaft Barnet has a pretty garden, with fine walks and good flowers; but the garden not being walled about they have lefs fummer fruit, yet are, therefore, the more induftrious in managing the peach and apricot dwarf ftandards, which, they fay, fupply them plentifully with very good fruit. There is a good fith-pond in the middle of it, from which a broad gravel walk leads to the highway, where a fair pair of broad gates, with a narrower on either fide, open at the top to look through fmall bars, well wrought and well painted, are a great ornament to the garden. They have orange and lemon trees; but the wife and fon being the managers of the garden (the bufband being gouty and not minding it), they cannot prevail for a houfe for then other than a barn end. 23. CAPTAIN FOSTER'S GARDEN at Lambeth has many curiofities in it. His green-houfe is full of fresh and flourishing plants, and before it is the fineft ftriped holly-hedge that perhaps is in England. He has many myrties, not the greatest but of the moft fancifui shapes, that are any where elfe. He has a framed walk of timber covered with vines, which with others, running on mcft of his walls without prejudice to his lower trees, vield him a deal of wine. Of flowers he has a good choice, and his Virginia and other birds in a great variety, with his glafs hive, add much to the pleasure of his garden. 24. MONSIEUR ANTHONY VESPRIT has a little garden of very choice things. His green-houfe has no very great number of plants, but what he has are of the best fort, and very well ordered. oranges and lemons (fruit and tree) are extraordinary fair, and for lentifcufes and Roman bayes he has choice above others. His He 125. RICKETTS at Hoxton has a large ground, and abundantly stocked with all manner of flowers, fruit trees, and other garden plants, with lims trees, which are now much planted; and, for a fale garden, he has a very good green-house, and well filled with fresh greens; befides which he has another room very full of greens in pots. has a greater ftock of Affyrian thyme than any body elfe; for, befides many pots of it, he has beds abroad, with plenty of roots, which they cover with mats and straw in winter. He fells his things with the dearest, and not taking. due care to have his plants prove well, he is fupposed to have loft much of his cuftom. 26. PEARSON has not near fo large a ground as Ricketts (on whom he almost joins), and therefore he has not so many trees; but of flowers he has great choice, and of auemonies he avers he has the best about London, and fells them only to gentlemen. He has no green-houfe, yet has abundance of myrtle and triped philareas, with oranges and other greens, which he keeps fafe enough under theds funk a foot within ground, and covered with ftraw. He has abundance of cypreffes, which, at three feet high, he fells for four pence apiece to thofe that take any number. He is moderate in his prices, and accounted very honeft in his deal. ing, which gets him much chapmanry. At Brompton Park was a very celebrated nursery, first established about the latter end of the laft century, by George London and Henry Wife Efqrs. Gardeners to King William and to Queen Anne. Bowack, who wrote an account of Kensington in 1708, speaks of the stock as almost incredible, and faya it was affirmed, that if the plants were valued at but id. apiece, they would amount to 40,000l. This ground belongs at prefent to Meirs. Grey and Wear."` Envirens of London, Vol. III. p. 171. 27. DARBY, 27. DARBY, at Hoxton, has but a little garden, but is master of several curious greens that other fale gardeners want, and which he faves from cold and winter weather in green-houses of his own making. His Fritalaria Craffa (a green) had a flower on it of the breadth of half a crown, like an embroidered ftar of feveral colours; I faw not the like any where, no not at Dr. Uvedale's, though he has the fame plant. He raifes many ftriped hollies by inoculation, though Captain Fofter grafts them as we do apple-trees. He is very curious in propagating greens, but is dear with them. He has a folio paper book, in which he has pafted the leaves and flowers of almost all manner of plants, which make a pretty show, and are more instructive than any cuts in Her bals.. 28. CLEMENTS, at Mile End, has no bigger a garden than Darby, but has more greens, yet not of fuch curious forts. He keeps them in a green-house. made with a light charge. He has vines in many places about old trees, which they wind about. He made wine this year of his white muscadine, and white Frontinac, better, I thought, than any French white wine. He keeps a hop of feeds in plants in pots next the ftreet. Jan. 26, 1691. J. GIBSON. To the EDITOR of the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE. SIR, THE following Original Letter, fomething damaged, lately fell into my hands. It contains fome particulars concerning America at the end of the laft Century, which may afford entertainment to your readers; I therefore offer it to you for infertion, and am, I HONOURED SIR, DOUBT not ere this but you are as impatient to hear of my health and circumstances as I am to acquaint you thereof, which I fhall do in as few words as I can. After we fet fail from the Isle of Wight, methought the fatigue of the voyage was over, for I was then in hopes fhortly to leave my float. ing prifon, that had almoft worn out my little patience by reafon of our long embargo. We were about feven weeks in our paffage from the Land' End to the Capes of Virginia, during which time, as alío while we lay in the Downs, I enjoyed my health very well, having not in the leaft been difcommoded by the fea. All that I obferved in my paffage worth mentioning was, that after we paffed the Weltern Inlands, which lie three hundred leagues from the Land's End, we daily met with feaweeds, ftill increafing till we came upon the coaft of Virginia, fuppofed to be brought with the current which cou ftantly runs north-eaft from the Gulph of Florida: the feamen call them Gulph weeds. It is a yellow plant, divided into many branches feparating from the Yours, &c. A. Z. Maryland, March 20, 1696-7. root; the leaves are fmall and long, growing thick from the root to the top in no order. It bears little round berries not fo big as currants. I have fent Mr. Bobart fome of it. The abundance of flying fish that we me: were no little diverfion to me. They Ay in great shoals or flocks, and feem at a distance like flocks of larks. They feldom mount above three fathoms high. The cause of their flight, which is not past an hundred yards, is to avoid the dolphins and benettes that prey upon them: the biggeft of them feems not to be so big as a little herring I catched one that accidentally lit upon the fide of our fhip, and which was not above an inch long. The fea-water differs not in gra vity, and confequently in fairnels, in any latitude that we were in from which it is at the Downs, which I tried with a waterpoife, only when we were paft founding it feels a great deal war mer, almost milk-warm and I fuppese it is much warmer towards the bottom; for one day being in a calm, I tied a glass bottle to the end of a line, adding weight enough to fink it, and I let it Jacob Bobart, Botany Profeffor to the University of Oxford, and Keeper of the Phyfic Garden.-EDITORY Na |
