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GARDENING UNDER WILLIAM AND MARY.
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walks like arbours close, others shady, others open, some
gravel, some grass.” Standard cypress or yews “ cut in
severall forms were dotted about.” Trim hedges of holly,
laurel or box, divided the parts of the garden :—for instance,
“ the front garden wch 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,” * 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 ye picanther.” She remarks, at
Trygothy, in Cornwall, the drawing-room opened into the garden,
“ wch has gravell walks round and across, but ye 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, Dwarfe trees and Oring and Lemon trees
in rows wth fruite and flowers at once and some ripe, they are
ye 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 ffine grove of
high trees and good gardens, but nothing very curious as ye
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 . . . ye ffine Bowling-green walled in and
a Summer-house in it all new.” At Barmstone, in Yorkshire,
* =fruit trees cut small.
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walks like arbours close, others shady, others open, some
gravel, some grass.” Standard cypress or yews “ cut in
severall forms were dotted about.” Trim hedges of holly,
laurel or box, divided the parts of the garden :—for instance,
“ the front garden wch 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,” * 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 ye picanther.” She remarks, at
Trygothy, in Cornwall, the drawing-room opened into the garden,
“ wch has gravell walks round and across, but ye 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, Dwarfe trees and Oring and Lemon trees
in rows wth fruite and flowers at once and some ripe, they are
ye 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 ffine grove of
high trees and good gardens, but nothing very curious as ye
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 . . . ye ffine Bowling-green walled in and
a Summer-house in it all new.” At Barmstone, in Yorkshire,
* =fruit trees cut small.