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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
Vyncent and John Gaddisby of Kyngston, for four loads of 
quicksets, every load containing thirty hundred sets of them 
“ to set about the mount by the King’s new garden.” Another 
entry refers to the purchase of ash poles “ to make rails to bind 
the quicksets,” and “ two bundles of wylly roddes to bind ” 
them ; and “ three pear trees to set in the mount.” The most 
elaborate part of the mount was the arbour. The “ South 
arbour ” seems to have been the one on the mount, but mention 
is also made in the accounts of a “West arbour,” which was 
apparently very similar, as the same things were bought for 
both, and payment made to “ John a gwylder smith ” “ for 300 
of broddes serving for the fretts in the roof of the south herber 
at the mount I2d. the 100, 3s.,” and to Galyon Hone, the 
King’s glazier, several sums were paid, of which the following 
is a sample : “ Item in the mount in the garden 48 lights, 
every light in the upper story containing 4! foot, in the nether 
story every light containing 4! foot 3 inches, which amount in 
all (to) 211 foot at 5d. the foot, £4. 7s. nd.” This gives one 
some idea of how large the arbour was, and how carefully it 
was made. It appears, furthermore, from the accounts that 
the “ south herber ” was connected with the west one by a 
gallery running along the wall, which was made of wooden 
poles and trellis-work. Such galleries were marked character¬ 
istics of late fifteenth and early sixteenth century gardens, and 
designs for them are found in some old works ; the best of these 
being in the Hortus Floridus of Crispin de Pas (or Passe), 
which was translated into English in 1615. They existed in 
Hampton Court before Henry VIII. made his alterations 
there, and are thus referred to in Cavendish’s metrical life 
of Wolsey : 
“ My galleries were fayre, both large & longe 
To walk in them when that it liked me beste. 
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With arbours & alleys so pleasant & so dulse 
The pestilent airs with flavours to repulse.” 
I do not know of a single example of a gallery or arbour, of 
this description, in existence. They were made of perishable 
material, such as wood-trellis planted with creepers, vines, roses, 
