ness, and his public virtues. The greater
part of the woods, which were raised in consequence of Evelyn's
writings, have been cut down; the oaks have borne the British flag to
seas and countries which were undiscovered when they were planted, and
generation after generation has been coffined in the elms. The trees of
his age, which may yet be standing, are verging fast toward their decay
and dissolution: but his name is fresh in the land, and his reputation,
like the trees of an Indian Paradise, exists, and will continue to exist
in full strength and beauty, uninjured by the course of time." Mr.
Loudon, in his Encycl. of Gardening, thus speaks of him:--"Evelyn is
universally allowed to have been one of the warmest friends to
improvements in gardening and planting, that has ever appeared. He is
eulogized by Wotton, in his _Reflections on Ancient and Modern
Learning_, as having done more than all former ages." Switzer calls him
"that good esquire, the king of gardeners." His life (says Mr. Walpole)
"was a course of inquiry, study, curiosity, instruction, and
benevolence. He knew that retirement, in his own hands, was industry and
benefit to mankind; in those of others, laziness and inutility."

There appears the following more modern publications respecting Mr.
Evelyn:--

1. Sylva, with Notes by Hunter; in 4to, and 8vo.

2. Memoirs and Correspondence of Mr. Evelyn. Edited by Mr. Bray. 5 vols.
8vo. _Portraits_, and other plates. L3. 10s. Another edition, in 2
vols., 4to.

3. Evelyn's Miscellaneous Writings, collected and edited, with Notes, by
Mr. Upcott. Forming a Supplement to the Evelyn Memoirs. 1 vol. 4to. with
plates, 1825. L3. 10s.

The Encycl. of Gardening enumerates the whole of Mr. Evelyn's works. So
does Dr. Watts in his Bibl. Britt.; and Mr. Johnson in his History of
English Gardening.[67]

ABRAHAM COWLEY. The portraits of him are well known. That in Bishop
Hurd's edition is very neat. This same portrait is also well engraved
for Ankars's edition of Cowley; and also in that by Aikens, in 8vo. Dean
Sprat has prefixed to his edition of Cowley, his portrait, engraved by
Faithorne, and, in his preface, pays a warm and just tribute to his
memory. When his death was announced to Charles II., he declared, that
Mr. Cowley had not left a better man behind him in England. Cowley
addresses his chapter _Of Gardens_ (which strongly paints his delight in
them) to Mr. Evelyn. He wrote this epitaph for himself:--

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