46 GA RDEN- CRA FT. 



tionary of Principal Subjects in the British Museum* 

 under the head of Garden. 



There is also a typical example of a fourteenth- 

 century garden in the Romaunt d" Alexandre (Bodleian 

 Library). Here the flower garden or lawn is separ- 

 ated by a wooden paling from the orchard, where a 

 man is busy pruning. An old painting at Hampton 

 Court, of the early part of the sixteenth century, 

 gives pretty much the same class of treatment, but 

 here the paling is decorated with a chevron of white 

 and red colour. 



To judge from old drawings, our forefathers 

 seem to have been always partial to the green- 

 sward and trees, which is the landscape garden in 

 the " Q^g ' ! A good extent of grass is always 

 provided. Formal flower-beds do not often occur, 

 and, where shown, they are sometimes surrounded 

 by a low wattled fence — a protection against 

 rabbits, probably. Seats and banks of chamo- 

 mile are not unusual. \ bank of earth seems to 

 have been thrown up against the enclosing wall ; 

 the front of the bank is then faced with a low parti- 



* "Early Drawings and Illuminations." Birch and Jenner. 

 (Bagster, 1879, p. 134.) 

 "Gardens. 1 



19 D. i. ff. I. etc. 15 E. iii. f. 123. 



20 A. xvii. f. 7b. '15 E. vi. f. 146. 

 20 B. ii. f. 57. 16 G. V. f. 5. 



14 803 f. 63. 17 F. i. f. 149 b. 



18 851 f. 182. I 19 A. vi. f. 2. 109. 



18 852 f. 3. b. , 19 C. vii. f. i. 



26667 f. i. , 20 C. V. ff. 7. etc. 



Harl. 4425. f. 12. b. 1 Eg. 2022. f. 36. b. 



Kings 7. f. 57. Harl. 4425. f. \()0 b. 



6 E. ix. f. 15. b. j -^9720. 



14 E. vi. f. 146. ' 19 A. vi. f. 109." 



