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ON GARDENS
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I accompanied my Lady Clarendon to her house at
Swallowfield in Berks, dining by the way at Mr,
Graham’s lodge at Bagshot; the house, new repair’d
and capacious enough for a good family, stands in a
Park.
Hence we went to Swallowfield ; this house is after
the antient building of honourable gentlemen’s houses,
when they kept up antient hospitality, but the gardens
and waters as elegant as ’tis possible to make a flat, by
art and Industrie, and no meane expence, my lady
being so extraordinarily skill’d in the flowery part, and
my lord in diligence of planting ; so that I have hardly
seene a seate which shews more tokens of it than what
is to be found here, not only in the delicious and rarest
fruits of a garden, but in those innumerable timber trees
in the ground about the seate, to the greatest ornament
and benefit of the place. There is one orchard of
rooo golden, and other cider pippins; walks and
groves of elms, limes, oaks, and other trees. The
garden is so beset with all manners of sweet shrubbs,
that it perfumes the aire. The distribution also of the
quarters, walks, and parterres, is excellent. The nur-
series, kitchin garden full of the most desireable plants ;
two very noble Orangeries well furnished ; but above
all, the canall and fishponds, the one fed with a white,
255
I accompanied my Lady Clarendon to her house at
Swallowfield in Berks, dining by the way at Mr,
Graham’s lodge at Bagshot; the house, new repair’d
and capacious enough for a good family, stands in a
Park.
Hence we went to Swallowfield ; this house is after
the antient building of honourable gentlemen’s houses,
when they kept up antient hospitality, but the gardens
and waters as elegant as ’tis possible to make a flat, by
art and Industrie, and no meane expence, my lady
being so extraordinarily skill’d in the flowery part, and
my lord in diligence of planting ; so that I have hardly
seene a seate which shews more tokens of it than what
is to be found here, not only in the delicious and rarest
fruits of a garden, but in those innumerable timber trees
in the ground about the seate, to the greatest ornament
and benefit of the place. There is one orchard of
rooo golden, and other cider pippins; walks and
groves of elms, limes, oaks, and other trees. The
garden is so beset with all manners of sweet shrubbs,
that it perfumes the aire. The distribution also of the
quarters, walks, and parterres, is excellent. The nur-
series, kitchin garden full of the most desireable plants ;
two very noble Orangeries well furnished ; but above
all, the canall and fishponds, the one fed with a white,