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corner of the Lambeth Garden, is also uncertain. It 
appears to have received the name from a conversation 
which took place in the Garden between Laud and 
Hyde, in which the latter seems to have told the 
Archbishop pretty plainly that “ people were universally 
discontented . . . and many people spoke extreme ill 
of his grace,” on account of his discourteous manners, 
which culminated on one occasion by his telling a guest 
“ he had no time for compliments,” which greatly in¬ 
censed him. The only survivals of former years are 
the delightfully fragrant fig-trees, which flourish between 
the buttresses on the sunny side of the library—the 
great hall rebuilt by Archbishop Juxon after the 
destruction in Cromwell’s time. These figs are now 
fair-sized trees, but they are only cuttings of the older 
ones destroyed in 1829, when Archbishop Howley 
commenced his rebuilding. The two parent trees, in 
1792, measured 28 inches and 21 inches in circum¬ 
ference, and were 50 feet high and 40 feet in breadth, 
and, according to contemporary evidence, bore delicious 
fruit of the white Marseilles variety. Tradition ascribed 
their planting to Cardinal Pole during his brief sojourn 
as Archbishop. 
Latimer seems much to have appreciated the Lambeth 
Garden, when business called him to the Palace. Sir 
Thomas More describes, in 1534, how he watched him 
walking in the Garden from the windows. Latimer 
himself, in writing to Edward VI., says, “ I trouble my 
Lord of Canterbury, and being at his house now and 
then, I walk in the Garden looking at my book, as I 
can do but little good at it. But something I must 
needs do to satisfy the place. I am no sooner in the 
Garden and have read awhile, but by-and-by cometh 
