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fountain. In the illustration is seen a characteristic 

 example from the "Gardener's Labyrinth." 



The mount. Another feature developed at this period was the 

 'mount, a mound of earth usually covered with 

 grass and serving as a lookout over the garden wall 

 into the park. Often it was capped by an arbour 

 or a simple seat. There was a very large mount at 

 Hampton Court, constructed in 1533. It was built on a 

 brick foundation covered with earth and planted with 

 twelve hundred quicksets. On the summit was a spa- 

 cious summer-house. 



carved Carved animals of stone or wood, upholding little 



beasts. 



weather-vanes, were especially characteristic of this 

 period. At Hampton Court, those erected by Henry 

 VIII included harts, lions, greyhounds, hinds, dragons, 

 bulls, antelopes, griffins, leopards, rams, tigers, and 

 badgers. They were distributed all over the gar- 

 dens and orchards, and stood at intervals on the posts 

 between the railings, on the stone coping around the 

 terraces and flower-beds, and on top of the mount, 

 san-diais. A number of sun-dials were also scattered about, 

 both for use and ornament Henry VIII apparently 

 ordered them by the dozen. Sun-dials had existed in 

 England before the Roman invasion, but interest in 

 them seems to have been especially keen during the six- 

 teenth century. A German protege of Henry VIII, 

 named Kratzer (whose portrait by Holbein, now in the 



