A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



although of no historical value, surely such a curious legend is 

 worth relating. 



The earliest view of a monastery garden in this country 

 appears to be that in the plans or bird's-eye views of the monastic 

 buildings at Canterbury, made about 1165, and bound up with 

 the Great Psalter of Eadwin, now preserved in the library of 



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PART OF THE PLAN OF THE MONASTERY, CANTERBURY, SHOWING THE 

 HERBARIUM FROM MS. CIRCA 1165. 



Trinity College, Cambridge. These drawings seem to have been 

 made (probably by the engineer Wibert or his assistants) to 

 record the system of waterworks and drainage of the monastery.* 

 One of them shows the Herbarium which occupies half the 

 space between the Dormitory and the Infirmary, surrounded by 



* Architectural Hist, of the Mon. of Christ Church, Canterbury. The Rev. 

 Robert Willis, M. A., F.R.S. Archeologia Cantiana. Vol. VII., 1868. 



