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JOHN EVELYN
stately porticos, &c. any where about the towne)
should be so much straighten’d and turn’d into tene-
ments. But that magnificent pile and gardens con-
tiguous to it, built by the late Lord Chancellor
Clarendon, being all demolish’d, and design’d for
Piazzas and buildings, was some excuse for my Lady
Berkeley’s resolution of letting out her ground also for
so excessive a price as was offer’d, advancing neere
£ i ooo per ann. in mere ground rents ; to such a made
intemperance was the age come of building about a
citty, by far too disproportionate already to the nation;
I having in my time seene it almost as large again as it
was within my memory.
7 Aug., 1685. I went to see Mr. Wats, keeper of
the Apothecaries Garden of Simples at Chelsea, where
there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort
particularly, besides many rare annuals, the tree bearing
jesuits bark, which had don such wonders in quartan
agues. What was very ingenious was the subterranean
heate, conveyed by a stove under the conservatory, which
was all vaulted with brick, so as he has the doores
and windowes open in the hardest frosts, secluding
only the snow.
JOHN EVELYN
stately porticos, &c. any where about the towne)
should be so much straighten’d and turn’d into tene-
ments. But that magnificent pile and gardens con-
tiguous to it, built by the late Lord Chancellor
Clarendon, being all demolish’d, and design’d for
Piazzas and buildings, was some excuse for my Lady
Berkeley’s resolution of letting out her ground also for
so excessive a price as was offer’d, advancing neere
£ i ooo per ann. in mere ground rents ; to such a made
intemperance was the age come of building about a
citty, by far too disproportionate already to the nation;
I having in my time seene it almost as large again as it
was within my memory.
7 Aug., 1685. I went to see Mr. Wats, keeper of
the Apothecaries Garden of Simples at Chelsea, where
there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort
particularly, besides many rare annuals, the tree bearing
jesuits bark, which had don such wonders in quartan
agues. What was very ingenious was the subterranean
heate, conveyed by a stove under the conservatory, which
was all vaulted with brick, so as he has the doores
and windowes open in the hardest frosts, secluding
only the snow.