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laid out on three different levels, with low retaining 



Garden. 



walls and copings or stone ; in this stone one can see 

 the holes whereby were fastened the thirty or more 

 heraldic beasts which formerly served to strengthen 

 the wooden railings striped with white and green, the 

 royal colours. Above one corner of the wall appears 

 a battlemented banqueting house built by Henry VII. 

 In the centre of the enclosure is a round fountain, on 

 a line with the entrance at one end and a vine-covered 

 arbour opposite. The present planting is unworthy 

 of special attention ; but from the royal accounts we 

 know that among the flowers originally ordered for 

 the garden in Henry VIII's time were "violettes and 

 Primroses, Gilliver-slips, mynts, and other sweet flowers. 

 100 Roses at 4d the hundred. Sweet Williams at 3d 

 the bushel." It was weeded and watered by women at 

 twopence a day. In this garden young Henry VIII 

 carried on his first flirtations with Anne Boleyn, and 

 here, when overtaken by infirmities, he used to hobble 

 about in his premature old age. 



The literature of this period relating to gardens Early 

 was also slow to develop fresh and individual char- 

 acteristics. This chiefly consisted of herbals translated 

 from the Latin, as they had been previously by the 

 Anglo-Saxons and by the Anglo-Normans. Begin- 

 ning with the " Ortus Sanitatus," published in 1485, 

 sprang up a new crop of these books, which were of 



