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...there," says worthy John Evelyn in his "Sylvia," "any more glorious sight and refreshing object of this kind than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show in my ruined garden at Sayes Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy), any time of the year,...

...there,' says worthy John Evelyn in his ' Sylvia,' ' any more glorious sight and refreshing object of this kind than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show in my OUR DECEMBIR WREATH. 2G3 ruined garden at Sayes Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy),...

...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves ; the taller...

...worked in the Deptford Dock-yards. Evelyn praises this fence in the following laudatory terms : — ' Is there under Heaven a more glorious and refreshing...high, and five in diameter, which I can show in my new raised gardens at Say's Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy), at any time of the year glistening...

...alludes to this in the following passage in his ' Sylva,' wherein he asks, ' Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind,...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show in my rained garden at Saye's Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy) at any time of the year,...

...every morning, which John Evelyn speaks of as a " glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge, about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, glittering with its armed and variegated leaves, the taller standards, at orderly distances, blushing...

...Evelyn probably alludes to this in the following passage, wherein he asks, "Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show in my ruined garden at Saye's Court (thanks to the Tzar of * Memoirs of J. Evelyn. Muscovy)...

...It is a plant, however, of singular beauty. Mr. Evelyn. in his ' Sylva,' cries out with rapture : ' Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind than an impenetrable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which...

...took so innocent and great a pleasure. Of this hedge he speaks in his *'Sylva": "Is, there under the heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the...five in diameter, which I can show in my now ruined garden at Sayes Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy), at any time of the year glittering with its...