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had in the time of Henry II., and which Fitzstephen 

 mentions ; or of that * garden faire ' at Windsor, in 

 Henry the Fifth's reign, where the thick 



' . . . . bewis, and the leaves greene, 

 Beschudit all the alleyes that there were ; ' 



which the Encyclopaedia of Gardening tells us James I. 

 of Scotland describes, when a prisoner there ; or even 

 of the 'exceeding fair gardens within the mote, 

 and the orchardes without,' at Wresehill Castle, 

 which Leland mentions ; or of that vineyard and 

 garden in Holborn which, in the reign of Henry III., 

 was given to the conventical Church of Ely; or of 

 the three gardens and dove-house belonging to the 

 once richly decorated Church of St. Helen's, Bishops- 

 gate Street ; or of that garden (perhaps near the one 

 which Gerard afterwards rendered so famous) in 

 Holborn, containing, with its orchard, about forty 

 acres (on the site of which the present Hatton Garden 

 is built), the strawberries in which were so excellent, 

 that even Richard (Garrick's Richard) beseeched my 

 Lord of Ely to * send for some of them.' 



Shakespeare reminds us of another garden: for 

 Dallaway, in his Supplementary Anecdotes of Gardening 

 annexed to his invaluable edition of Walpole's Anec- 

 dotes, remarks, that the poet thus mentions a garden 

 of those times, in the first Act of Love's Labow Lost: 

 ' Thy curious knotted garden.' 



