18 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
according to Barcia, “a hall of justice, parochial 
church, and other buildings, together with gardens in 
the rear of the town.” And an engraving of this at¬ 
tack by Drake, published in England upon his return, 
shows gardens upon the west side of the little settle¬ 
ment; which corresponds to “the rear of the town,” as 
it faced the east and the sea. The Monastery of the 
Franciscan Order had been established at the south 
end a little time before this; so doubtless one of the 
gardens destroyed—perhaps the finest and the best— 
was that of the brotherhood. For where there is a 
Monastery, there is a garden—this has always been 
the rule. Monastery gardens, however, are, first of all, 
gardens intended to furnish the simple fare of fast 
days, or of the austere rule of the Order. Pleasure 
gardens as such are not within the monkish province, 
although flowers are grown for the chapel altars to be 
sure; and in course of time many wonderful gardens 
have grown up within the cloisters and courtyards of 
religious houses. But these have not come until war¬ 
fare has been ended and the days of peace and plenty 
have arrived. 
The first Menendez was now dead—Pedro Menen- 
dez de Aviles, Adelantado of the Province—and his 
nephew, Don Pedro Menendez, governed in his place. 
After the English raid he saw the need of a greater 
number of inhabitants, and of more permanent struc- 
