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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



were trained with roses, and yew, cypress or juniper trees planted 

 in the centre of each bed ; while along the walls were apple, pear 

 and damson trees, and under them " violets, prymroses, sweet 

 williams, gillifer slips, mynt and other sweete flowers," and this 

 garden contained the mount and arbour. Another plot was the 

 "Pond Garden/ 5 which merely seems to have contained the 

 ponds, and was only decorated with the " beestes," as there is 



PICTURE AT HAMPTON COURT SHOWING THE RAILED BEDS AND BEASTS. 



no mention of flowers being planted in it. There was the " little 

 garden," of which not much is known, except that sixty-seven 

 apple-trees were bought for it from "William gardener of London 

 merchant, at 6d. the piece." The distinguishing features of 

 Hampton Court from all other gardens that we know anything of 

 at this time, were the "beasts" and the "dials." The carved 

 animals holding "vanes," and the brass dials, seem to have been 

 put in every part of the gardens and orchards. The beasts were 



