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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Royal 

 gardens. 



Hampton 

 Court in the 

 hands of 

 Henry VIII. 



Among the royal gardens of this time were those 

 already existing and kept up at the Tower of Lon- 

 don, Baynardes Castle, Wanstead, and Westminster, 

 those renovated at York Place and Whitehall, and a 

 new one at Nonesuch. 



But the finest of the Tudor gardens were at Hamp- 

 ton Court, where Wolsey's work was almost entirely 

 swept away to make room for the improvements de- 

 signed by Henry VIII. These changes covered part 



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THE POND GARDEN AT HAMPTON COURT 



of the space between the palace and the river, and 

 the only portion now remaining is the small enclos- 

 ure known as the Pond Garden. Of oblong shape, 

 surrounded by an outer wall of brick, the ground is 



