ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



The clois- 

 ters. 



The physic 

 garden. 



The kitchen 

 garden. 



The ceme- 

 tery. 



physic garden, the vegetable garden, and a combination 

 of orchard and burial ground. 



The cloister-garth was a square, planted with grass 

 and possibly shrubs, divided by two intersecting paths 

 into four equal quarters. In the 

 centre was a savina, supplying water 

 for drinking .,and washing purposes. 

 These cloisters were south of the 

 church, and surrounded by the other 

 more important communal buildings. 

 For obviously logical reasons, the 

 physic garden was placed close beside the house of 

 the medical attendant. It was laid out in sixteen 

 oblong beds, severally containing peppermint, rosemary, 

 white lilies, sage, rue, corn-flag, pennyroyal, fenngreek, 

 roses, watercress, cummin, lovage, tansy, kidney bean, 

 fennel, or savory. All of these were regarded as herbs 

 useful for medicinal purposes. 



The kitchen garden was necessarily on a larger 

 scale and contained eighteen oblong beds of identical 

 shape, each planted with a different kind of vegetable 

 or pot-herb: onion, garlic, parsley, coriander, chervil, 

 dill, lettuce, poppy, savory, radish, parsnip, carrot, 

 cabbage, beet, leek, shallot, celery, or corn-cockle. Near 

 by was the house of the head gardener or hortulanus. 

 In the burial ground, trees and shrubs were planted 

 in the spaces between the graves, and must have 



