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A HISTORY OF GARDEXING IN ENGLAND. 



There were generally two entrances to them ; one, a door opening 

 from the house, the other giving access from the garden into the 

 orchard or meadow. If high hedges and walls were retained 

 in later times on account of their beauty or shelter, it was certainly 

 with a view to security that they were originally adopted. 



TUKFEU SEAT IN A GARDEN WALL. FROM ROMAN DE LA ROSE, FLEMISH MS. 

 LATE FIFTEENTH CENTUKV. B.M. HARL., 4425. 



I saw a garden right anoon 

 Full long and broad and evcridcle 

 Enclosed was and walled weic 

 With hie wallcs cmbatailed." * 



Chaucer, Rovuniuf of the Rose. L. 136. 



