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been arbitrary. The term was also used for the 

 raised walk at the end of the garden/ Lawson 

 mentions " mountes whence you may shoote a 

 Buck " among the causes of dehght in an 

 orchard. " When you behold in divers corners 

 of your orcharde mounts of stone or woode 

 curiously wrought within and without, or of 

 earth covered with fruit-trees ; Kentish cherry, 

 damsones, plummes, etc., with staires of precious 

 workmanship, and in some corner (or mo.) a 

 true Dyall or clocke and some anticke workes, 

 and especially silver -sounding musique, mixt 

 instruments and voices gracing all the rest : 

 how will you be rapt with delight t Large 

 walks, broad and long, close and open like the 

 Tempe groves in Thessaly raised with gravel 

 and sand, having seats and banks of camomile, 

 all this delights the mind, and brings health to 

 the body." The latest instance of a mount 

 seems to have been the mount at New Park, in 

 Surrey, which was laid out at the end of the 

 seventeenth century, probably by London and 

 Wise. The mount here was placed in the 

 extreme upper right-hand corner to overlook 

 the whole of the garden. 



Grass walks have been already referred to in 

 dealing with paths. Bowling-greens existed in 

 almost every old English garden of any size. 

 Borde refers to them, and Markham distin- 

 guishes between three sorts of bowling-grounds : 



^ See A Platform for Ponds, reproduced from Markham. 



