. An encyclopædia of gardening; . and other magnificence, on a lease. His father was cf the•ame trade, and an anabaptist. BushneWs Wells at Enstone. This Bushnell had been secretary to Lord Verulam. It is an extraor-dinary solitude. There he had two mummies, and a grot, %vhcre he lay in a hammoc hke an we went to Ditchley, an ancient seat of the Lees, &c. — Bushnells gardens and water-worksetill exist, and are shown as curiosities to strangers. Ham House, and garden of the Duke of Lauderdale, Middlesex, inferior to few of the best villas ofItaly itself, tlie house furnished like a
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . and other magnificence, on a lease. His father was cf the•ame trade, and an anabaptist. BushneWs Wells at Enstone. This Bushnell had been secretary to Lord Verulam. It is an extraor-dinary solitude. There he had two mummies, and a grot, %vhcre he lay in a hammoc hke an we went to Ditchley, an ancient seat of the Lees, &c. — Bushnells gardens and water-worksetill exist, and are shown as curiosities to strangers. Ham House, and garden of the Duke of Lauderdale, Middlesex, inferior to few of the best villas ofItaly itself, tlie house furnished like a great princes; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves,avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries, and all this at tlie banks of the sweetest riverin the world, must needs be admirable. Wansted House, Essex, {Jig. 50.) Sir Josiah Childs prodigious cost in planting walnut-trees about hissoat, and making fish-ponds some miles in circuit in Epping-forest, in a barren spot, as oftentimes th»jsc 30. suddenly monied men for the most part seat themselves.—In 1822 this magnificent seat was reduced to a mere mass of materials, through the improvidence of VVellesley Long Pole, who became possessed of it bjmarriage. The house was sold in lots, and the ground let in small portions on building leases. Sir Henry Capclls orangery and tni/rtitieum at Kew, most beautiful and perfectly well kept. He wascontriving very high palisadoes of reeds to shade his oranges during the summer, and painting these reedsin oil Althorp, Lord Northamptons, Northamptonshire. The iron gate opening into the park of very goodwork, wrought in flowers, painted in blue, and gilded. Bcddington, the seat of the Carews, Surrey, now decaying, heretofore adorned with ample gardens, andtlie first orange-trees that had been seen in England, planted in the open ground, and secured in winteronly by a tabernacle of boards and stoves, &c. standing a hundred and twenty years. Large and goodlytre
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