78 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



From the top of this the eye ranges across the garden with 

 quaintly cut yew-trees, over a magnificent view of the open 

 country beyond ; thus the mount served in early times as 

 a "look out" or watch tower. If the garden or orchard 

 happened to be situated in a park, and herds of deer browsed 

 close to its walls, the mount then became useful as a point 

 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 ornamient 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 

 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 

 raised and planted with quicksets. The sum of 54s. 8d, was paid 

 to Lawrence Vyncent and John Gaddisby of Kyngston, for four 

 loads of quicksets, every load containing thirty hundred sets of 

 them " to set about the mount by the King's new garden," 

 Another entry refers to the purchase of " ash poles to make 

 rails to bind the quicksets," and " two bundles of wylly roddes 

 to bind" them; and " three pear trees to set in the mount." 

 The most elaborate part of the mount was the arbour. The 

 " South arbour " seems to have been the one on the mount, 

 but mention is also made in the accounts of a west arbour, 

 which was apparently very similar, as the same things were 

 bought for both, and payment made to " lohn a gwylder smith " 

 " for 300 of broddes serving for the fretts in the roof of the 

 south herber at the mount I2d. the 100, 3s,," and to Galyon 

 Hone, the King's glazier, several sums were paid, of which 

 the following is a sample. " Item in the mount in the garden 



"•■•" I.awson, A'e7v Orr/nirJ. 



