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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



as those of Tudor days. Tusser, in the following passage,, 

 enumerates the tools then in use * : — ■ 



" Now set doo aske watering with pot or with dish 

 new sowne doo not so, if ye doo as I wish 

 Through cunning with dible, rake, mattock and spade 

 by line and by leuell, trim garden is made." 



We know the cost of these tools from various accounts. The 

 prices ranged from 4d. to is.f 



Probably many of the tools were home-made. Fitzherbert, 

 in 1534, in his Book of Husbandry, devotes a paragraph to- 





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TOOLS USED IN GRAFTING. 



showing " howe forkes and rakes shulde be made."' He says 

 that they should be prepared in the winter, "when the 



* Five Hundred Poiiitcs of Good H iishaiidrie. 



f Hampton Court, March, 1533. Item for three iron rakes serving for the 

 King's new garden at 6d. the piece — iSd. Item for a hatchet serving for the 

 said garden, 6d. Item for three new kni\es to shred the quicksets in the new 

 garden at 3d. the piece, gd. Item for six pieces of round hue to measure and 

 set forth the new garden, I2d. Item for two cutting hooks, 2s. Item for two 

 cutting knives, 4d. Item for two rakes, i6d. Item for two chisels, 6d. Item 

 for a grafting saw, 4d. The price paid for a spade at Hunstanton, in Norfoll-c, 

 on July 7th, 1538, was 8d., and on December ist, in the same year, 5d. and 

 "for a hattchett, a rake and a parving yearne (=^pariiig-iroii) for the garden^ 

 lod. March nth, 1343." — l.v. Strx-hgk, Hojiseliold P>ooks. 



