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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



There were generally two entrances to them ; one, a door opening 

 from the house, the other giving access from the garden into the 

 orchard or meadow. If high hedges and walls were retained 

 in later times on account of their beauty or shelter, it was certainly 

 with a view to security that they were originally adopted. 



TURFED SEAT IN A GARDEN WALL. FROM ROMAN DE LA ROSE, FLEMISH MS. 

 LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. B.M. HARL., 4425. 



1 saw a garden right anoon 

 Full long and broad and everidele 

 Enclosed was and walled wele 

 With hie walles embatailed." * 



* Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rose. L. 136. 



