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ON GARDENS
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especialy petite Luxemlurge. The ascent of the
streete is handsome from its breadth, situation, and
buildings.
The next morning I went to the Garden of Monsieur
Morine, who from being an ordinary gardner is become
one of the most skillfull and curious persons in France
for his rare collection of shells, flowers, & insects.
His Garden is of an exact oval figure, planted with
cypresse cutt flat & set even as a wall: the tulips,
anemonies, ranunculus’s, crocus’s, &c. are held to be
of the rarest, and draw all the admirers of such things
to his house during the season. He lived in a kind of
Hermitage at one side of his garden, where his collec-
tion of purselane and coral, whereof one is carved into
a large Crucifix, is much esteemed. He has also
bookes of prints, by Albert [^DurerJ, Van Leyden,
Calot, &c. His collection of all sorts of insects,
especially of Butterflys, is most curious ; these he
spreads and so medicates that no corruption invading
them, he keepes them in drawers, so plac’d as to
represent a beautifull piece of tapistre.
He shew’d me the remarks he had made on their
propagation, which he promis’d to publish. Some of
217
especialy petite Luxemlurge. The ascent of the
streete is handsome from its breadth, situation, and
buildings.
The next morning I went to the Garden of Monsieur
Morine, who from being an ordinary gardner is become
one of the most skillfull and curious persons in France
for his rare collection of shells, flowers, & insects.
His Garden is of an exact oval figure, planted with
cypresse cutt flat & set even as a wall: the tulips,
anemonies, ranunculus’s, crocus’s, &c. are held to be
of the rarest, and draw all the admirers of such things
to his house during the season. He lived in a kind of
Hermitage at one side of his garden, where his collec-
tion of purselane and coral, whereof one is carved into
a large Crucifix, is much esteemed. He has also
bookes of prints, by Albert [^DurerJ, Van Leyden,
Calot, &c. His collection of all sorts of insects,
especially of Butterflys, is most curious ; these he
spreads and so medicates that no corruption invading
them, he keepes them in drawers, so plac’d as to
represent a beautifull piece of tapistre.
He shew’d me the remarks he had made on their
propagation, which he promis’d to publish. Some of