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Hampton Court (the Privy Garden is on the site 

 now) with gravel paths, beds cut in the grass, and 

 railed and raised mounds decorated with sun-dials. 

 Over the rails roses clambered and bloomed and the 

 center of each bed was adorned with a yew, juniper, 

 or cypress-tree. Along the walls fruit-trees were 

 planted apples, pears, and damsons and beneath 

 them blossomed violets, primroses, sweet williams, 

 gilliflowers, and other old favorites. 



Toward the end of his reign Henry VIII turned 

 his attention to beautifying the grounds of Nonsuch 

 Palace near Ewell in Surrey. These gardens were 

 worthy of the magnificent buildings. A contem- 

 porary wrote: "The Palace itself is so encompassed 

 with parks full of deer, delicious gardens, groves 

 ornamented with trellis-work, cabinets of verdure 

 and walks so embowered with trees that it seems to 

 be a place pitched upon by Pleasure herself to dwell 

 in along with health." 



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An example of a typical Tudor estate, Beaufort 

 House, Chelsea, later Buckingham House, is said to 

 have been built by Sir Thomas More in 1521 and re- 



