EARLY TUDOR GARDENS. 



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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 

 Ham.pton 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 



PICTURE AT HAMPTON COURT HHOWIXG THE RAILED BEDS AND BEASTS. 



set at intervals along the railed beds, and about the mount and 

 all round the ponds, and the entries concerning them in the 

 accounts are very frequent.^ 



"Also paid to Bryse Auguston, of ^^'estminster, clockmakcr, for making of 

 -'o brazen dials for the king's new garden at 4s. 4d. the piece, ^4. 6s. 8d, — For 

 making of bestes in timber for the king's new garden — paid to Edmund More, 



* 25 Henry \"III. (1533). Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipts, ISIis- 

 ccHaneous Books, No. 238. 



