32 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



Hampton Court.* In many ways throuj^h those troublous times 

 the monastic orders kept ahve the science of Horticulture, and 

 spread the knowledge of it to those around them. Thus by 

 practising, as well as by preaching, they showed by their useful 

 lives that " to labour was to pray." 



* The Knighls of St. John of Jerusalem and the Templars, also the 

 Cistercians, were exempted from payment of the tithe of the gardens. — Fuller, 

 Church History. 





