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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



Fig-trees. 



Box 

 borders. 



The 

 Harti- 

 choke 

 garden. 



The 



Phesant 



Garden. 



The 

 Vine- 

 yard 

 Garden. 



Tliere also are in the said upper garden two other fair Fig- 

 trees, well planted and ordered, whieh \\i' value to be worth los. 



The borders of box, rosemary, eorants, and the roots of flowers 

 and herbs belonging to the said upper garden, and not herein 

 before valued, we estimate to be worth £2",. 17s. 6d. 



There is one parcel of land belonging to the said upper 

 garden, containing forty four perches of land, called the Hartichoke 

 Garden, lying on the west end of the said lower level ; unto which 

 there are 12 steps of descent; the ground whereof is ordered for 

 the growth of hartichokes, the value and contents whereof are 

 comprised in the foresaid yearly value and admeasurement of the 

 said upper garden ; but the roots and plants of hartichokes therein 

 now growing and planted we value at ;^i. los. 



There are in the said Hartichoke Garden five very handsome 

 Bay trees, which we value to be worth £1. 



And also of one parcel of ground adjoining to the North and 

 East wall of the Oringe Garden, commonly called the Phesant 

 Garden, severed from the Park with a pale of deal boards of 10 

 foot high ; within which is one phesant house, boarded within and 

 without, containing 6 rooms, tiled ov^erhead, and also one shed, tiled, 

 containing 4 rooms, wherein the phesant keeper used to live and 

 lodge ; one great partition of deal boards, ten foot high and fifty yards 

 long ; twenty partitions of lattices, sixty three young sicamore 

 trees, two oaks, two ash trees, three birch trees, ten fruit trees, and 

 a descent of twenty three steps of stone; all which we value to be 

 worth £'2'6. 13s. The Phesant garden contains upon admeasurement 

 one acre, — roods, and 5 perches, [and] is worth per annum ^^i. 



And also of one other garden called the Vineyard [Garden], 

 adjoining to the foresaid upper or great garden upon the East 

 side thereof, and severed from it with a brick wall of ten foot 

 high, and also severed from Wymbledon Park with a brick wall 

 ten foot high upon the east side thereof, and severed from the 

 highway or lane leading from Wymbledon town to the Iron 

 Plate Mills with a brick wall of nine foot higli upon the South 

 side thereof, and from the Kitchen garden with another wall of 

 bricks of ten foot high on the West side thereof, containing upon 

 admeasurement ten acres, one rood, twenty-three perches ; worth 

 per annum /.to. 5s. 



Memoranoum, that the said Vineyard Garden is divided into 

 twelve several triangles, inclosed within four fair walks or allies. 



