62 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



of the same fruit realizing io^f. to the seller. 

 These are early material for any future his- 

 tory of the " Origin of Tips." According to 

 some of the entries under 1531, it seems as 

 if the gardening charges at Greenwich were 

 paid quarterly, for a man named Walsh re- 

 ceived i 5J. 6d. for trimming the garden 

 there at the end of November in that year ; 

 and this, like some of the other payments, 

 may have been in advance for Christmas. 



In my edition of Randolph's Poems, with a 

 view to rendering it more complete, rather 

 than from any hope of making it more 

 acceptable to the drawing-room table, I in- 

 serted from a MS. in the British Museum 

 some verses " On a Maid seen by a Scholar 

 in Somerset House Garden." This must 

 have been before 1635, the date of the 

 writer's decease ; and it seems to shew that 

 the indifferent reputation of the mansion was 

 shared by the grounds. Probably, when 

 Queen Henrietta Maria resided there, a little 

 more decorum was observed ; but even this 

 is questionable. The garden of the old 

 palace was far more extensive than the 



