Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London . Book of Common Prayer, andthe translators of the Bible ; and, antecedently. Cardinal Wolsey,and Thomas Cromwell, and Sir Thomas More. Hither came allthe wisest of English statesmen, from Burleigh to Pitt; QueenElizabeth, James I., William and Mary, and the Princess—after-wards. Queen—Anne. Poets and authors, from Spenser to Pope,and from Bacon to Addison. Evelyn, the diarist, who didso much to revive and improve horticulture and to encourageforestry. Sir Isaac Newton, and the founders and membersof the Royal Society ; Vanbrug
Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London . Book of Common Prayer, andthe translators of the Bible ; and, antecedently. Cardinal Wolsey,and Thomas Cromwell, and Sir Thomas More. Hither came allthe wisest of English statesmen, from Burleigh to Pitt; QueenElizabeth, James I., William and Mary, and the Princess—after-wards. Queen—Anne. Poets and authors, from Spenser to Pope,and from Bacon to Addison. Evelyn, the diarist, who didso much to revive and improve horticulture and to encourageforestry. Sir Isaac Newton, and the founders and membersof the Royal Society ; Vanbrugh, and Sir Christopher Wren ;Sir William Temple, the statesman—but in this connection stillmore interesting as the passionate lover of gardens—and withhim probably his secretary, Jonathan Swift. Sir Hans Sloane,Horace Walpole, and a host of others more or less famous. Ofthe visits of some of these to Fulham there is written record-it is very probable that all the rest, and others besides,whom it would take too long to recall, came here from timeto time 86. oo CI. O FULHAM PALACE Nor do I attempt to mention those worthies of England nearei*to, and of, our own day, men of Hght and leading, and of letters ;learned divines, novelists, poet-laureates, politicians ; in a word,half the illustrious men and women of the Victorian age. Theymust all have crossed the picturesque quadrangle—where evennow the fountain can toss its iridescent spray much higher thanthe red-tiled roof—to reach the hospitable palace in which, fromthe eleventh century to the twentieth, the Bishops of London havewelcomed the coming, and sped the parting guest. But to return to the Gardens ! I had no personal acquaintancewith them before the spring of 1915, when the compelhng demandsof the most terrible war on record disturbed their are charming now, and must have been exceedingly lovelyin the summers before 1914, when all Gods peace was upon them ;for their seclusion was complete—th
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