Gardens Ancient And Modern An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden Art
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92 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS JAMES Educated at Oxford ; travelled abroad as agent for first glass manufactory HO WELL established in England ; later M. P. And one of the Clerks of the Privy Council V 595" doo;. T Charles 1. ; Secretary to British Ambassador in Denmark ; imprisoned in Fleet and released by Cromwell ; Historiographer to Charles II. ; aTtthor of 11 Dodona's Grove " and ' ' Epistolce Ho- E liana. " (Familiar Letters of J. H. } '"PHE stables (at Lord Savage's House in Long-Melford) butt... * upon the Park, which for a cheerful rising Ground, for Groves and Browsings for the Deer, for rivulets of water, may compare with any for its highness in the whole land ; it is opposite to the front of the great House, whence from the Gallery one may see much of the Game when they are a-hunt- ing. Now for the gardening and costly choice Flowers, for Ponds, for stately large Walks, green and gravelly, for Orchards and choice Fruits of all sorts, there are few the like in England : here you have your Bon Christian Pear, and Bergamot in per- fection, your Muscadel grapes in such plenty, that there are bottles of Wine sent every year to the King; and one Mr Daniel, a worthy Gentleman hard by, who, with him long abroad, makes good store in his Vintage.
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