326 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
destroyed. In writing of the merits of holly in his 
“ Sylva,” Evelyn says of this one: “ Is there under 
heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind, 
than an impregnable Hedge a hundred and sixty feet in 
length, and seven feet high, and five in diameter, which 
I can shew in my poor Gardens at any time of the year, 
glittering with its armed and vernish’d leaves ? the taller 
Standards at orderly distances blushing with their natural 
Corail. It mocks at the rudest assaults of the Weather, 
Beasts, and Hedgebreakers.” This hedge has long since 
departed, but young hollies, planted in groups on the 
same part of the Garden, keep up the old associations. 
One v/ing of the house is standing, and is at present used 
as a school. The walled garden on the south side is 
still there, and on the north a wide terrace walk, with a 
straight grass lawn with large beds, is in keeping with 
the old place. But instead of the views over the river, 
and the Garden descending to the water’s edge, there is a 
high rampart of the buildings of the Foreign Cattle 
Market, from whence the sounds of lowing oxen mingle 
with the din of streets which close round the Garden on 
the three other sides. In spite of these drawbacks, it is 
delightful to know, that the surviving portion of the once- 
beautiful Garden is fulfilling a want among the poor in 
a way that would have appealed to the generous and 
kind-hearted author. 
These are some of the chief gardens of historic 
interest, but it by no means exhausts the list of the 
smaller ones rich in associations, green courts attached to 
schools, almshouses, hospitals, or such-like, which are 
hidden away in unexpected corners throughout London. 
