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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



from which one " myghte shoot a bucke." * The top of the 

 mount was often surmounted by an arbour, either of trellis- 

 work and creepers, or a more substantial building. Probably 

 the finest specimen of this kind of ornament was the " mount " 

 at Hampton Court, and from various sources we can form a very 

 good idea of what it was like. It was situated at the southern 

 end of the " King's New Garden," which was made in 1533, at 

 which time a gardener named Edward Gryffyn superintended the 



THE MOUNT, ROCKINGHAM 



work. The mount was made on a brick foundation, as there 

 were payments made to " John Dallen of London, bricklayer," 

 for " laying of 256,000 of brick upon the walls about the new 

 garden, betwixt the King's lodgings and Thames, and the 

 foundations of the mount standing by Thames, taking for every 

 1000 I4d., by convention 14. i8s. 8d." The earth was then 



* Lawson, New Orchard. 



