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England. Household accounts give us a few glimpses into the 

 management of such gardens. In the interesting series at 

 Hunstanton, of the Le Strange Household books, such items as 

 the following occur : 



" 1628 Nov. 6, for a Bagg to Bring the fruit home in is. To a man for 

 digging of flaggs for the Bowling ground 45. For 65 foote of Oake Bord for 

 the gardin doores 75. 



1629 Paid for dikinging and Hedging of Heacham orchyard, 2 men for 

 7 dayes a peice 7d. in clearing the garden and digging of it us. 8d. 



1630 6 wheel Barrowes i, for a crest for the gardin house end at 2s. 8d. 

 -Qi. iSs., and for crest for the moate wall i6d. 12. 2s. 5d. and for the gardin 

 entry doorstall 3od. and for crest over that door. 



Oct. 1 6, 1631 for a gardin spade 35. 



1632 To the gardiner for a quarter's wages wanting 2 weekes 2. 

 1635 For 2 greate gardin basketts 45. 



1637 Pumpes and Pipes for the garden 2. 45. To a gardener of Creake 

 for slips and seeds, 2s." 



What greatly adds to the interest of the Accounts of 

 Hunstanton, is that the part of the garden there referred to 

 within the moat, has been but little altered since that date. 

 The bowling-green is still there, and a square plot of garden 

 with thick low hedges, in front of the house, is hardly changed. 

 The note book of Henry Oxenden, of Barham, Kent, between 

 the years 1638 and 1668,* contains many interesting gardening 

 entries : 



" Feb. u, 1635 set the hawksbill pares in the garden in Maydeken. 



" 1635 planted the cherry garden at great JMaydeken. 



" Feb. 14, 1652 gave Mr. Barling 4 apple trees and a peare tree, viz. a 

 musk pare tree. 



" Feb. 10, 1652 sent my Coz Henry Oxinden the yew tree . . . lent him 

 then my stone rowle ; ----- 



" Nov. 16, 1647 planted twentie-five peare trees in the garden that is walled 

 about at Great Maydeken witness my sonne Thomas and my sonne Hobart. 



" Nov. 1654 tooke up out of the Nursery at Maydeken I quince tree, 2 

 warden trees and 3 other peare trees, and set y m in By ton, and I pear tree 

 against the bake house windore, I allso sete one medlar tree and a nutmeg 

 peach tree in the garden. 



" Fb. 19, 1655 grafted one of the best pares Capt. Meri wether hath 

 uppon a tree beside the house at South Barham ; made a crosse upon it : it is 

 to be eaten in Feb. 



* The Genealogist, July and October, 1891 January, 1892. 



