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ON GARDENS
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stone, built after the old Roman magnificence. About
this ample parterre, the spacious walkes & all included,
runs a border of freestone, adorned with pedestails for
potts and statues, and part of it neere the stepps of
the terrace, with a raile and baluster of pure white
marble.
The walkes are exactly faire, long, & variously
descending, and so justly planted with limes, elms, &
other trees, that nothing can be more delicious, especi-
aly that of the hornebeam hedge, which being high
and stately, butts full on the fountaine.
Towards the farther end is an excavation intended
for a vast fishpool, but never finish’d. Neere it is an
enclosure for a garden of simples, well kept, and here
the Duke keepes tortoises in greate number, who use
the poole of water on one side of the garden. Here
is also a conservatory for snow. At the upper part
towards the Palace is a grove of tall elmes cutt into a
start, every ray being a walk, whose center is a large
fountaine.
The rest of the ground is made into severall in-
closures (all hedgeworke or rowes of trees) of whole
fields, meadowes, boxages Qbocages], some of them
containing divers acres.
Next the streete side, and more contiguous to the
215
stone, built after the old Roman magnificence. About
this ample parterre, the spacious walkes & all included,
runs a border of freestone, adorned with pedestails for
potts and statues, and part of it neere the stepps of
the terrace, with a raile and baluster of pure white
marble.
The walkes are exactly faire, long, & variously
descending, and so justly planted with limes, elms, &
other trees, that nothing can be more delicious, especi-
aly that of the hornebeam hedge, which being high
and stately, butts full on the fountaine.
Towards the farther end is an excavation intended
for a vast fishpool, but never finish’d. Neere it is an
enclosure for a garden of simples, well kept, and here
the Duke keepes tortoises in greate number, who use
the poole of water on one side of the garden. Here
is also a conservatory for snow. At the upper part
towards the Palace is a grove of tall elmes cutt into a
start, every ray being a walk, whose center is a large
fountaine.
The rest of the ground is made into severall in-
closures (all hedgeworke or rowes of trees) of whole
fields, meadowes, boxages Qbocages], some of them
containing divers acres.
Next the streete side, and more contiguous to the