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ference entailed some alterations, and extended its use 
to a wider circle. 
The Garden of Fulham, the other ecclesiastical palace 
of London, is even more interesting than Lambeth, on 
account of the fine trees still remaining of which the 
history is known. Among the Bishops of London 
several have shown great interest in the gardens, 
and two especially, Grindal and Compton, were 
eminent gardeners. The tamarisk was introduced by 
Bishop Grindal, and in the golden age of gardening 
he was in the foremost rank of the patrons of 
the art, with Bacon and Burghley. He used to send 
Queen Elizabeth presents of choice fruits from his 
garden, and on one occasion got into trouble by send¬ 
ing fruit, when one of his servants was supposed, 
unjustly, to have the plague. He wrote (5th August 
1566) to Burghley, to say he was sorry he had “no 
fruit to offer him but some grapes.” These grapes 
were of course produced out of doors, as growing 
vines in green-houses was a fashion unknown until 
some 150 years later. Even before the additions of 
Grindal, the gardens were extensive, and Bonner is said 
to have been much in his garden, not from the love of 
its repose, but, according to contemporary but pre¬ 
judiced chroniclers, because in the further arbours of 
the garden he could with the rod or by other equally 
stringent measures, “ persuade ” undisturbed those of 
the reformed religion to recant and adopt his views. 
His successor, Grindal, used the Garden for more laud¬ 
able and peaceful practices, and his work of planting 
was mucff appreciated in that garden-loving age. Bishop 
Aylmer, who, after Sandys, succeeded Grindal in 1577, 
was accused of destroying much of Grindal’s work and 
