EARLY TUDOR GARDENS. 



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It was not onl}' for humble folk that wild strawberry roots were 

 gathered, for, in the oft-quoted Hampton Court Accounts, we 

 find several entries of money paid for strawberry roots, brought 

 from the woods for the King's garden. 



The raspberry had until this period been more or less 

 ignored, and even now seems not to have been very generally 

 grown. Turner,"^ in 1548, says of " Rubus ideus in Englishe 

 raspeses or hyndberies .... growe most plentuously in the 

 woddes in east Freseland .... they growe also in certayne 



APRICOT TREES ON OLD GARDEN WALL, LITTLECOTE. 



sardines of Englande." He also says of them, " The taste of 

 it is soure." The gooseberry, which does not appear in earlier 

 _gardens, was now grown. It was planted in some of Henry 



* " Emptions of strowbery roots violettes and primerose roots for the 

 new garden — also paid to Ales Brewer and Margaret Rogers for gathering 

 of 34 bushels of strowberry roots, primerose and violettes at 3d. the bushel, 

 ■8s. 6d. Item to Matthew Garrett of Kyngston for setting of the said rootes and 

 flowers by the space of 20 days at 3d. the day, 5s." 



