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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTDEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



153 



onr readerB as one of the most beautifal we know, whether we 

 refer to the type, the paper, or the views. The information 

 imparted by the Editor ia interesting and popularly written. 

 The work iudicionely commences with Windeor, and its tirbt 

 pages relate to 

 the Castle. 



The garden at- 

 tached to the 

 Castle ia not wor- 

 thy of such a 

 palace ; tho chief 

 attractions of its 

 grounds are the 

 terraces and the 

 trees of tho parks. 

 The elevated posi- 

 tion of the Castle 

 enables most ex- 

 tensive views to 

 be oommanded 

 over these from 

 its windows. One 

 of the most at- 

 tractive of those 

 views, looking to- 

 wards Eton, being 

 from the library 

 window, a favour- 

 ite one of tho late 

 Prince Consort, is 

 shown in the wood 

 out accompanying 

 these notes. For 

 this illustration 

 we are indebted 

 to " Picturesque 

 Europe." 



Heartily do we 

 wish that it was 

 permissible to 

 trace the history 

 of Windsor Castle 

 fronjRoman times 

 to the present 

 We could fill a 

 page with notes 

 on the coins of 

 Constantino and 

 Probus found in 

 its vicinity ; and 

 then of the origin 

 of Windsor forest, 

 made by William 

 the Conqueror, 

 and protected by 

 a characteristic 

 law that " hares 

 should go free, 

 and whoever kill 

 ed a hart or hind 

 should be blind- 

 ed," an eiYectual 

 mode of prevent 

 ing the poacher 

 repeating the of 

 fence. 



A vineyard was 

 appended to the 

 Castle, and the 

 vintager's pay 

 first commences 

 ia the Pipe Rolls 

 for 115.5, Lam- 

 barde records 



" that tythe hathe bene payed of wyne pressed out of Grapes 

 that grewe in the Little Parke theare, to the Abbot of Wal- 

 tham, and that accompts have bene made of the charges of 

 planting the Vines that grewe in the saide parke." Richard III. 

 ux the first year of his reign appointed John Piers to be 

 '■ Master of our Vyneyarde of Vvnes of onr Castell of Wynde- 

 sore, and otherwise called the office of Keeper of our Gardyne 

 called the Vyneyarde." He and hia deputy were to have as 



Fig, 38. — WiNDSOE CASTLE— VIEW FROJI THE LIRR4EY WINDOW. 



" wages and fees sixpence by the day." The garden, how- 

 ever, down to the close of Henry VXlI.'s reign did not re- 

 ceive the care, nor did it cover a space equal to (ithers 

 of the Royal gardens. The wages of the gardener at Wind- 

 sor were only 

 £4 ayear, but 

 = rrtSf-^- :- those of the gar- 



dener at Beaulieu 

 were more than 

 £12. The gar- 

 dens at Green- 

 wich, Richmond, 

 and Hampton 

 Court aro shown 

 by the privy purse 

 accounts to have 

 chieHy furnished 

 the Kinf'.'fl table 

 with fruits and 

 vegetables. 



In the year 

 1272, Henry III. 

 being King, there 

 was issued an 

 order for timber 

 " to pale and en- 

 close the gar- 

 den ;" a fountain 

 of freestone and 

 a well Tr-ero also 

 constructed in it. 

 But Edward IH. 

 let on a long lease 

 "the garden 

 plott " to thd Cor- 

 poration of Wind- 

 sor, and the lease 

 was renewed by 

 subsequent mon- 

 archs until about 

 the year 1700. It 

 was rather more 

 than three acres, 

 and is described 

 as " agardine and 

 orchard bricke 

 walled round." 

 King James I. of 

 Scotland, whowas 

 confined for some 

 years as prisoner 

 in Windsor Castle 

 early in the fif- 

 teenth century, 

 gives us in a po- 

 etical effusion a 

 description of its 

 garden, which si- 

 milarly intimates 

 to us that it was 

 of contracted 

 space and formal 

 adornments : — 



Now was there raaide 

 fast by the touris 



Wlill 



A garden faire, and in 



the coineris 8et 

 Auhfcrber6f:r(-ne,with 



wandis long and 



small 

 Eailit ab'iut, and eo 



with treein stt 

 Was all the place, and 



Hawthorn hedges 

 knet, 



.f'- 



That ]yfe was now, walbyng there for by 

 That mvf»ht within scarce any wight et^pye, 



So thick the bewia ami the leves greue 

 Beschudit all, the allfytw all that there were, 



And Qjyddis every lierhere intKht be sene 

 Thescharpe Rrcen nweto Jencpere, 

 GrowiE^i 80 fair with brancbes here and tliere, 



That as it semyt to a Ijfe without, 



The bewis spred the herboro all aboat. 



Another garden in the reign of Kdward III. is described as 



