no 



ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Dore-cotes. 



DOVE- COT ICRATTON MANOR 



goodly to behold, very good to eat, and serveth as a 

 watch in the inner court, for that he spying strangers 



to come into the lodging 

 he faileth not to cry out 

 and advertise them of the 

 house." 



Doves too dwelt in the 

 courtyard or in the garden. 

 " A dove-house is also a nec- 

 essary thing about a man- 

 sion place," Borde says. The 

 illustrations show two dove-cotes of Norman types; 

 the earlier form is round. 



The confines The confines of the garden still remained rec- 

 trance. tangular, sometimes forming a perfect square, or an 

 oblong as in the illustration in the middle of page 

 1 08. As before, walls, a quickset hedge, or a fence 

 always surrounded the garden. There were several 

 entrances. The principal one 

 was usually a doorway open- 

 ing from the house or from 

 the house court. Ingress for 

 the gardener, and a gate espe- 

 cially for the owner correspond- 

 ing to the postern of the Middle 

 Ages, were also provided. Borde says, " The false 

 gate (otherwise called the back or field gate on that 



