VI. 



THE KITCHEN - GARDEN -- ALEXANDER 

 NECKAM AND JOHANNES DE GARLANDIA 

 THE GARDENS AT SHEEN, GREENWICH, 

 AND SOMERSET HOUSE SIR WILLIAM 

 TEMPLE'S GARDEN AT SHEEN KEW 

 GARDENS GARDENS IN AND ABOUT 

 LONDON IN 1691 EARLY CATALOGUES 

 OF PLANTS THE DUKE OF BEDFORD'S 

 BOTANICAL PUBLICATIONS. 



|:HE kitchen-garden is supposed by 

 Wright to have preceded the 

 flower-garden ; he imagines the 

 flowers, among the Anglo-Saxons, to have 

 been planted in enclosed spaces or beds 

 near the house. The orchard, which we 

 now identify with fruit-trees, had its origin in 

 wyrt or ort geard, the garden for wyrtan, a 

 term generally employed to signify any sort of 



