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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



Dutch 

 Elms. 



[Coran 

 trees, &c. 



Garden 

 Houses. 



Rollers. 



The 



Kitchen 



Garden. 



[Laurels 



Arbutis 

 tree. 



ornament to that part of the Vineyard Garden ; which we value 

 to be worth jQ"]. 13s. 4d. 



There also are seven Dutch Elms growing in some of the 

 borders of the said eight triangles in a regular form, which we 

 value to be worth jf^i. 155. 



There are in the said Vineyard Garden, divers neat and 

 handsome borders of coran trees, respasses, strawberry beds, roots, 

 flowers, and herbs, all very well ordered, which we value to be 

 worth £s- 



There are also in the said \'ineyard Garden, two little garden, 

 summer, or shadow houses, covered with blue slate, ceiled and 

 benched and floored with brick ; the one standing in the wall at 

 the end of the walk that leads in a line diametrically opposite to 

 the hall door of the said Manor or Mansion House, and very much 

 graces that walk ; the other, standing in the East wall of the said 

 Vineyard garden, at the end of the walk or alley that leads up 

 the middle of the Vineyard, from East to West ; the materials of 

 which two garden houses we value to be worth ;^'i4. 



There are in and belonging to the said Vineyard Garden, two 

 rollers of stone with very large and handsome frames of Iron; and 

 also there are belonging to that said Oringe and Upper Garden 

 6 rollers of stone, fitted as aforesaid, worth in all jQ\6. 



And also of one other garden called the Kitchen Garden, lying 

 and being between the said Vineyard Garden and the highway or 

 lane leading from the town of Wymbledon unto the Iron Plate 

 Mills, and fenced with a pale upon the North west and South 

 west side thereof, and with the South west wall of the said 

 Vineyard garden on the North east side thereof, containing upon 

 admeasurement two roods and twenty six perches oi ground, worth 

 per annum £\. los. 



Memorandum, that in the said Kitchen Garden there are forty 

 trees of very good growth, and pleasant wall fruits, well planted 

 and ordered, which we value (one tree with another) in the whole 

 at ^10. 

 ] There are also ten Laurel trees, well planted and ordered, which 

 we estimate to be well worth in the gross jC,i. los. 



There is also one fair tree, called the Irish Arbutis, standing 

 in the middle of the said Kitchen Garden, very lovely to look upon, 

 worth £\. IDS. 



There are also thirty tight Cherry trees well planted and 



