3o8 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 



ference entailed some alterations, and extended its use 

 to a wider circle. 



The Garden of Fulham, the other ecclesiastical palace 

 of London, is even more interesting than Lambeth, on 

 account of the fine trees still remaining of which the 

 history is known. Among the Bishops of London 

 several have shown great interest in the gardens, 

 and two especially, Grindal and Compton, were 

 eminent gardeners. The tamarisk was introduced by 

 Bishop Grindal, and in the golden age of gardening 

 he was in the foremost rank of the patrons of 

 the art, with Bacon and Burghley. He used to send 

 Queen Elizabeth presents of choice fruits from his 

 garden, and on one occasion got into trouble by send- 

 ing fruit, when one of his servants was supposed, 

 unjustly, to have the plague. He wrote (5th August 

 1566) to Burghley, to say he was sorry he had "no 

 fruit to offer him but some grapes." These grapes 

 were of course produced out of doors, as growing 

 vines in green-houses was a fashion unknown until 

 some 150 years later. Even before the additions of 

 Grindal, thef gardens were extensive, and Bonner is said 

 to have been imuch in his garden, not from the love of 

 its repose, " but, according to contemporary but pre- 

 judiced chroniclers, because in the further arbours of 

 the garden he could with the rod or by other equally 

 stringent measures, " persuade " undisturbed those of 

 the reformed religion to recant and adopt his views. 

 His successor, Grindal, used the Garden for more laud- 

 able and peaceful practices, and his work of planting 

 was much' appreciated in that garden-loving age. Bishop 

 Aylmer, who, after Sandys, succeeded Grindal in 1577, 

 was accused "of destroying much of Grindal's work and 



