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rose and lily, they adopted the Roman names rose and 

 lilie ; the latter appears to have been their favourite 

 flower. Among other plants which apparently were 

 grown in beds were suthern-wude (southernwood), the 

 turn-sole (sun-flower) also called sigel-hwerfe (the gem- 

 turned) or solseace (from the Latin solsequium], the 

 clce/re (violet), the periwinkle (from the Latin pervinca), 

 the hunig-suckle (honeysuckle), the peony (from the 

 Latin pionia), the d&ges-eye (daisy), and the laur-beam, 

 more likely to have been the bay tree than the laurel. 



The principal enclosure seems to have been dominated Anglo-Saxon 



fruits . 



by fruit trees, hence the origin of the words ort-geard, 

 ovc-geard, and orcyrd. The apple was the chief fruit 

 of the Anglo-Saxons, and known by the Anglo-Saxon 

 name ceppel. The apple tree was called an apulder, and 

 was divided into two species, the surmelst apiilder 

 or souring apple tree, and the swite apulder or sweeting 

 apple tree. An apple orchard was an apulder-tun, and 

 from the fruit was pressed ceppel-win or cider. Cherries 

 (cyrs-treow or ciris-beam from the Latin cerasus) were 

 also favourite trees, and the enclosure especially in- 

 tended for them was called the cherry-geard. The 

 pear (as its names pera and piriga from the Latin pirus, 

 imply) was probably received from the Romans, as 

 were the peach (persoc-treow from persicarius], the 

 mulberry (mor-beam from morus\ the chestnut (cysten, 

 cyst or cystel-beam from castanea), and perhaps the 



