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32 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
Hampton Court.* In many ways through those troublous times
the monastic orders kept alive the science of Horticulture, and
spread the knowledge of it to those around them. Thus by
practising, as well as by preaching, they showed by their useful
lives that “to labour was to pray.”
* The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem and the Templars, also the
Cistercians, were exempted from payment of the tithe of the gardens.—Fuller,
Church History.
Hampton Court.* In many ways through those troublous times
the monastic orders kept alive the science of Horticulture, and
spread the knowledge of it to those around them. Thus by
practising, as well as by preaching, they showed by their useful
lives that “to labour was to pray.”
* The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem and the Templars, also the
Cistercians, were exempted from payment of the tithe of the gardens.—Fuller,
Church History.