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In the ordinary course of things, little would have to be 



bought for a garden, as seeds would be saved, and plants 

 divided and exchanged among friends, year by year. 



" Good huswifes in sommer will saue their owne seedes * ' i ''> * ' 



against the next yeere, as occasion needes ," ' ' 



One seede for another, to make an exchange ***! 1 \ ' 



With fellowlie neighbourhood seemeth not strange." 



Consequently, in old account books we do not find many 

 entries for things bought to stock the garden. But the making 

 so many fine new gardens must have created a demand for 

 plants with which to furnish them. The large quantities of 

 things bought for the newly laid-out gardens could only have 

 been supplied by regular nurserymen, and market gardeners. 

 For instance, such amounts as five hundred rose trees, six 

 hundred cherry trees * at 6d. per hundred, could hardly have 

 been grown in private gardens. 



We had a glance at the fruit and vegetable market of 

 London in Edward the Second's reign,t and with the great 

 advances in gardening since that time, it is most probable 

 that the market had also increased, and the market gardeners 

 multiplied. Then, as now, the great place for market gardens 

 was the immediate vicinity of London, but some were planted 

 even in the heart of the town, as the following quotation shows : 

 " About the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII., the 

 poor people of Portsoken Ward, East Smithfield, were hedged 

 out, and in place of their homely cottages, such houses builded 

 as do rather want room than rent, and the residue was made 

 into a garden by a gardener named Cawsway one that serveth 

 the market with herbs and roots." % 



The largest supply of fruit trees came from the orchard at 

 Tenham, in Kent. The history of its establishment is related 

 in a curious and rare pamphlet, entitled, The Husbandman's 

 Fruitful Orchard, 1609. The author is unknown, but the epistle 





* Hampton Court Account. 



t See page 43. 



J Stowe, Survey of London. Ed. 1598, p. 139. 



