186 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



The Terrace and small Garden at Ham are said 

 to have been designed by John Rose, the celebrated 

 pupil of the great French Master Le Notre. 



Rose, who was chiefly a horticulturist, was 

 successively gardener to the Earl of Essex, the 

 Duchess of Cleveland and Somerset, and ended by 

 being Royal Gardener at Hampton Court. This 

 small Garden is a mass of little Flower-beds, shaded 

 by some very old Cedars and a beautiful Tulip tree, 

 which must have been one of the first grown in 

 England, as these trees were only brought over 

 from America in 1688. The cultivation of Pine- 

 apples is always associated with Rose's name, and 

 though they were not properly understood till much 

 later he managed to grow the first English 

 Pineapple (which he presented to Charles II.), his 

 portrait appearing in the Pineapple picture at Ham. 

 John Rose is also remembered as author of " The 

 English Vineyard " which appeared at the end of 

 " Evelyn's French Gardens." 



The Orangery at Ham mentioned by Evelyn 

 was probably arranged by Rose, who was more 

 interested in fruit-growing than in Gardening. It is 

 often thought Evelyn's allusion to " Orangeries " 

 can only mean an Orange plantation, and that 

 Ham cannot claim to have had one of the earliest 

 Orange-houses (in those days merely large rooms 

 with a fireplace and big windows). The first 

 Orange-house with a glass roof is supposed to have 



