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the poet-king, James I. of Scotland, who from his prison in 

 Windsor Castle spies 



* A Garden fair ; and in ihe Corners set 

 An Herbere greene, with Wandis long and small 

 Railit about.' 



The ' wands ' or railings, as a division of the beds before the use 

 of box, may also be seen, painted green and white, the Tudor 

 colours, in the backgrounds of Holbein's pictures of Will Somers 

 and Jane the Fool. Chaucer's garden in 'Troilus and Cresseide,' 

 also preserves this feature and the sanded alleys : 



This Yerde ^ was large, and railed al the aleyes 

 And shadowed wel with blos'oniy bowis grene, 

 And benchid newe, and sondid all the weyes. 



The mediaeval garden from the illumination of the ' Roman de 

 la Rose ' is shown both in Miss Amherst's ' History ' and in the 

 ' Formal Garden in England,' - and valuable illustrations are to be 

 found in the ' Songe de Poliphile ' and the illuminations of a 

 French MS. of the late fifteenth-century ' Le Rustican des Profits 

 Ruraux ' by Croissant, and in the Psalter of Edwin in Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, is given the private garden of one of the 

 canons.^ 



Less familiar is the pleasure garden here copied from the 

 earliest known Flemish engraving (about 1450) called the 'Garden 

 of Love,' in which the occupants of the garden are depicted as 

 engaged in all sorts of diversions, love-making, feasting, playing 

 cards and music. The beasts of the field and birds of the air, 

 monkeys and parrots even, are revelling amid perspectiveless 

 scenery of conventialised trefoil-trees and running water, and 

 large detached flowers are strewn upon the grass in the fore- 



^ Yerde or Yard (surviving in the Pond Yard at Hampton Court) was the 

 earlier form of the word Garden, both being of the same etymology (the 

 Anglo-Saxon ' geard ') and signifying an enclosure — the Scotch form ' Garth ' 

 comes half-way between the two — and other forms of the word are innumerable. 

 In Holland's Pliny we find hort-yard for orchard. 



'^ By Reginald Blomfield and Inigo Thomas. 



^ See ArchiTological Journal, vol. iv. p. i6o. 



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