I must give an extract from his "Country Contentements," as he reminds us of Shakspeare's lines on the tuneable cry of hounds; for Markham dwells on their sweetness of cry"their deepe solemne mouthes-their roaring and loud ringing mouthes, which must beare the counter-tenor, then some hollow plaine sweete mouthes—a deep-mouthed dog-a couple or two of small singing beagles, which as small trebles, may warble amongst them: the cry will be a great deale the more sweeter-the hollow deepe mouth-the loud clanging mouthe-deepe flewed, such as for the most part your Shropshire and pure Worcestershire dogs are-the louder and pleasanter your cry will be, especially if it be in sounding tall woods, or under the echo of rocks-and not above one couple of roarers, which being heard but now and then, as at the opening or hitting of a scent, will give much sweetnesse to the solemns, and gravenesse of the cry, and the musick thereof will bee much more delightfull to the eares of every beholder." Page 123.-The memory of Pope has perhaps never been more affectionately honoured (nor that of Lord Mendip, who so zealously preserved every part of the house and garden at Twickenham) than in the glowing and tender lines of De Lille, in his poem of Les Jardins. The vignette in my title-page, and that at page 84, are two of those neat decorations which so profusely embellish the Encyclopædia of Gardening. INDEX. A. Abercrombie, 153 Addison, xxviii., xxxii., 49, 115 117 Age of gardeners and horticul- Alison, Dr. xxxviii., 71, 120, 211 Bertholan, xviii. Bertrand, Fr., his Ruris Delicia, Blythe, Walter, 8, 88 Boileau, tributes to, xxiii. 56 Bornefond, x. Ardenne, J. P. de, his charity, xiv. Bos, the eminent painter, 56 Arabian literature, 2 Argyle, xxviii. Arnauld d'Andelli, xiii. Austen, Ralph, 18 B. Bacon, Lord, on flowers that per- fume the air, xxx., xxxv., 55 Banks, Sir Jos., 4, 181, 187 Beale, Dr. John, vi., 16, 17, 20, his attachment to his native country, 23 Bossuet, xxv. Boyceau, ix. apos- Bowles, Rev. Mr. his kind Bradley, reprints the Hereford- on the planting of wild flowers, 54 Braddick, 211 Bridgman, 129, 132, 135 Brocoli, 51 Brocq, P. le, 82 Browne, Sir Thomas, 94 Brydges, Sir E. 89, 93 on Pope, 131 Bucknall, 84 Bury, Mr. Barclay's, 170 on Pope, 129 Chesnut tree at Tortworth, 57, Cicero on agriculture, xxxvi. Clive, 164 on Moor Park, 112 Corregio, his poverty, 17, 202 Country life, its pleasures, 48, Coventry, Rev. F. 63, 135 Cradock, Jos. 179 Curtis, W. 184 D. Dallaway, 94, 135, 173, 176 Danby, xxviii. Daniel, H. 5 Darwin, 162, 164 Davy, Sir H. 30, 106 Death, 47, 58 Deepden, Mr. Hope's, 170 De Lille, xiv., xvii., 50, 183, 213 G. Gainsborough, Earl of, xxix. those of antiquity, 1 those of the Saxons, near Spitalfields, 36 Gardiner, J. 109 Garrick, 137, 158, 172, 178, 181 Garton, 65 Gerarde, xxx., 15, 87, 123 Gerard, Lady, an acquaintance Gibson, J. 33 Hartlib, the friend of Milton, 19 Harward, 17 Hawkins, Sir J. 8, 102, 103 Henry IV. patronized Olivier de Hill, Sir John, 141 Hollar, his portraits of the Tra Homer, xxx., 1, 2, 47, 187 J. |