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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
a sundial, the figures being planted in box or yew. There
is a good example of one after this design at Wentworth
Stainborough, which was made in 1732, in which the letters are
of box and the style of yew. Loggan’s views of Oxford and
Cambridge, especially in the plans of New College, Oxford, and
Queen’s and Pembroke, Cambridge, show good designs of this
kind of sundial.*
Gardeners from all times have had great difficulties to
contend with, in the extirpation of garden pests. Their minds
were chiefly exercised in devising schemes for keeping down
SUNDIAL, EUSTON, WITH THE ARLINGTON ARMS, ABOUT
the moles. When Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to Theobalds,
and Lord Burghley prepared a Masque in her honour in May,
1591, speeches were recited before her, composed by George
Peele, describing the processes of making the garden, and
comparing its beauties to the virtues of the Queen. The first
speech was that of the “ Molecatcher,” which began thus :—
“ I cannot discourse of knots and mazes, sure I am that the
* Cantabrigia and, Oxonia illustrata. Dav. Loggan, 1675. A sundial of
this description in box and yew has lately been planted in Mr. Leopold
Rothschild’s garden at Ascott, near Leig'hton Buzzard.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
a sundial, the figures being planted in box or yew. There
is a good example of one after this design at Wentworth
Stainborough, which was made in 1732, in which the letters are
of box and the style of yew. Loggan’s views of Oxford and
Cambridge, especially in the plans of New College, Oxford, and
Queen’s and Pembroke, Cambridge, show good designs of this
kind of sundial.*
Gardeners from all times have had great difficulties to
contend with, in the extirpation of garden pests. Their minds
were chiefly exercised in devising schemes for keeping down
SUNDIAL, EUSTON, WITH THE ARLINGTON ARMS, ABOUT
the moles. When Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to Theobalds,
and Lord Burghley prepared a Masque in her honour in May,
1591, speeches were recited before her, composed by George
Peele, describing the processes of making the garden, and
comparing its beauties to the virtues of the Queen. The first
speech was that of the “ Molecatcher,” which began thus :—
“ I cannot discourse of knots and mazes, sure I am that the
* Cantabrigia and, Oxonia illustrata. Dav. Loggan, 1675. A sundial of
this description in box and yew has lately been planted in Mr. Leopold
Rothschild’s garden at Ascott, near Leig'hton Buzzard.