46 GARDEN-CRAFT. 



tionary of Principal Subjects in the British Museum* 

 under the head of Garden. 



There is also a typical example of a fourteenth- 

 century garden in the Romaunt d'Alexandre (Bodleian 

 Library). Here the flower garden or lawn is separ- 

 ated by a wooden paling from the orchard, where a 

 man is busy pruning. An old painting at Hampton 

 Court, of the early part of the sixteenth century, 

 gives pretty much the same class of treatment, but 

 here the paling is decorated with a chevron of white 

 and red colour. 



To judge from old drawings, our forefathers seem 

 to have been always partial to the greensward 

 and trees, which is the landscape garden in the 

 egg " ! A good extent of grass is always 

 provided. Formal flower-beds do not often 

 occur, and, where shown, they are sometimes 

 surrounded by a low wattled fence a protection 

 against rabbits, probably. Seats and banks of 

 chamomile are not unusual. A bank of earth seems 

 to have been thrown up against the enclosing wail ; 

 the front of the bank is then faced with a low parti- 



* " Early Drawings and Illuminations." Birch and Jenner. 

 (Bagster, 1879, P- 

 " Gardens. 



19 D. i. ff. I. etc. 



20 A. xvii. f. 7b. 

 20 B. ii. f. 57. 



1 4 803 f. 63 . 

 18851 f. 182. 

 1 8 852 f. 3. b. 

 26667 f. i- 



Harl. 4425. f. 12. b. 

 Kings 7. f. 57. 

 6E. ix. f. 15. b. 

 14 E. vi. f. 146. 



15 E. iii. f. 122. 



15 E. vi. f. 146. 



16 G. v. f. 5. 



17 F. i. f. 149 . 

 19 A. vi. f. 2. 109. 



19 C. vii. f. i. 



20 C. v. ff. 7. etc. 

 Eg. 2022. f. 36. b. 

 Harl. 4425. f. 1 60 b. 

 19720. 



19 A. vi. f. 109." 



