HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF STYLES 



Progress of Garden Planning The Various Styles in Gardening 

 The Formal Style The Landscape Style The Mixed 

 Style England France Holland Germany Italy Japan. 



|S|1|| HE earliest English gardens 

 belonged to monasteries, 

 as the mopks v/ere the 

 only folk 'with sufficient 

 leisure, fvom : : war -and 

 labour to pay attention to 

 horticulture. The mo- 

 nastic garden was essen- 

 tially for use. It grew vegetables for food, herbs 

 and roots for medicine, and the flower portion 

 consisted of such things as are suitable for chapel 

 decoration, and for weddings, and burials. Fish 

 ponds were a feature, and have survived the 

 destruction of the garden in many places : for 

 example, at Bosham, the chain of fish ponds gives 

 some idea of the charm of the old place, though 

 they are now merely in a meadow. The old garden 

 was invariably enclosed, generally with walls, and 



