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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
although of no historical value, surely such a curious legend is
worth relating.
The earliest view of a monastery garden in this country
appears to be that in the plans or bird’s-eye views of the monastic
buildings at Canterbury, made about 1165, and bound up with
the Great Psalter of Eadwin, now preserved in the library of
PART OF THE PLAN OF THE MONASTERY, CANTERBURY, SHOWING THE
HERBARIUM FROM MS. CIRCA 1165.
Trinity College, Cambridge. These drawings seem to have been
made (probably by the engineer Wibert or his assistants) to
record the system of waterworks and drainage of the monastery.*
One of them shows the Herbarium which occupies half the
space between the Dormitory and the Infirmary, surrounded by
* Architectural Hist, of the Mon. of Christ Church, Canterbury. The Rev.
Robert Willis, m.a., f.r.s. Archeologia Cantiana. Vol. VII,, 1868.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
although of no historical value, surely such a curious legend is
worth relating.
The earliest view of a monastery garden in this country
appears to be that in the plans or bird’s-eye views of the monastic
buildings at Canterbury, made about 1165, and bound up with
the Great Psalter of Eadwin, now preserved in the library of
PART OF THE PLAN OF THE MONASTERY, CANTERBURY, SHOWING THE
HERBARIUM FROM MS. CIRCA 1165.
Trinity College, Cambridge. These drawings seem to have been
made (probably by the engineer Wibert or his assistants) to
record the system of waterworks and drainage of the monastery.*
One of them shows the Herbarium which occupies half the
space between the Dormitory and the Infirmary, surrounded by
* Architectural Hist, of the Mon. of Christ Church, Canterbury. The Rev.
Robert Willis, m.a., f.r.s. Archeologia Cantiana. Vol. VII,, 1868.