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been cut and divided into several alleys and compartments set 

 round with thorn hedges. On the North side was a Kitchen 

 Garden very commodious, containing 72 Fruit Trees, and 

 encompassed by a wall fourteen feet high. On the West was 

 a'^wilderness covering ten acres, severed from the little Park 

 by a hedge. In the privy Gardens were pyramids, fountains, 

 and basins of marble, one of which is *' set round with six 

 Lilac Trees ; which Trees bear no fruit, but only a very 

 pleasant smell ;" also 144 Fruit Trees, two Yews, and one 

 Juniper. Before the Palace was a bowling Green, surrounded 

 by a balustrade of Freestone. The whole was surrounded by 

 two Parks, which were also enclosed by Henry VIII., the one 

 containing 911 Acres, the other 671 Acres. 



In the Gardens of Lord Burleigh at Theobald's, which were 

 . encompassed by a broad ditch of Water, were a great profusion 

 of Trees and Plants, Obelisks, Pyramids, a Jet D'eau, Laby- 

 rinths, circular Porticoes, a summer House, Baths of lead, full 

 offish, &c. These Gardens were large. The chief Garden 

 covered a space of seven acres ; besides which were the plea- 

 sure Gardens, privy Gardens, and laundry Garden. In the 

 first were nine knots artificially and " exquisitely" made, one 

 of which was set forth in likeness of the King's arms. " One 

 might walk twoemylein the walks before he came to the end.*" 



At Hampton Court, which was laid out about the middle of 

 this reign by Cardinal Wolsey, there was a labyrinth, which 

 still exists, covering only, the quarter of an Acre of ground, 

 yet its walks extending by their volutions over nearly half a 

 mile. The walls also were covered with Rosemary, a fashion 

 then very generally adopted.f It was also long •elebrated for 

 its trees cut into grotesque forms, which Dr. Plot admired 

 and dignified with the name of Topiary Worhs.^ 



* Lyson's Environs of London. Hentzner's Travel's p. 38. Peck's 

 Desiderata Curioaa. f Ibid. p. 58. J History of Oifordshirc, p. 380. 



