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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
this date, the various terraces, trees, walks, summer-houses and
everything it contained being carefully described and valued.*
After the Restoration, conservatories became more general,
and are noticed by several of the writers of the time. Houses
were built for the reception of “ tender greens ” at the Oxford
Botanic Garden, and later on at Chelsea Physic Garden.
The gardens of Essex House in the Strand possessed a fine
collection “ of choicest greens,” under the care of John Rose,
one of the most celebrated gardeners of that day. His
treatment of plants in cases is thus quoted by Rea :—“ In spring
and autumn you must take some of the earth out of the cases,
and open the rest with a fork or other fit tool ... fill up again
with rank earth two parts dung well rotted.” That orange-trees,
however, were still considered a great novelty, the following
ORANGERIE AT CHISWICK. FROM AN ENGRAVING BY ROCQUE, 1736.
extract from Pepys’ Diary will show:—-“25 June 1666. Mrs.
Pen carried us to two gardens at Hackney (which I every day
grow more and more in love with) Mr. Drake’s one, where the
garden is good, and house and prospect admirable, the other my
Lord Brooke’s, where the gardens are much better, but the
house not so good nor prospect good at all. But the gardens
are excellent, and here I first saw oranges grow, some green,
some half, some a quarter, and some full ripe, on the same tree,
and one fruit of the same tree do come a year or two after the
other; I pulled off a little one by stealth (the man being
* Printed in Archceologia, Vol. X, 1789. Reprinted in an Appendix to-
this volume from original MS. in the Record Office, Parliamentary Survey,
No. 72.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
this date, the various terraces, trees, walks, summer-houses and
everything it contained being carefully described and valued.*
After the Restoration, conservatories became more general,
and are noticed by several of the writers of the time. Houses
were built for the reception of “ tender greens ” at the Oxford
Botanic Garden, and later on at Chelsea Physic Garden.
The gardens of Essex House in the Strand possessed a fine
collection “ of choicest greens,” under the care of John Rose,
one of the most celebrated gardeners of that day. His
treatment of plants in cases is thus quoted by Rea :—“ In spring
and autumn you must take some of the earth out of the cases,
and open the rest with a fork or other fit tool ... fill up again
with rank earth two parts dung well rotted.” That orange-trees,
however, were still considered a great novelty, the following
ORANGERIE AT CHISWICK. FROM AN ENGRAVING BY ROCQUE, 1736.
extract from Pepys’ Diary will show:—-“25 June 1666. Mrs.
Pen carried us to two gardens at Hackney (which I every day
grow more and more in love with) Mr. Drake’s one, where the
garden is good, and house and prospect admirable, the other my
Lord Brooke’s, where the gardens are much better, but the
house not so good nor prospect good at all. But the gardens
are excellent, and here I first saw oranges grow, some green,
some half, some a quarter, and some full ripe, on the same tree,
and one fruit of the same tree do come a year or two after the
other; I pulled off a little one by stealth (the man being
* Printed in Archceologia, Vol. X, 1789. Reprinted in an Appendix to-
this volume from original MS. in the Record Office, Parliamentary Survey,
No. 72.