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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
This looks as if it was what is usually understood by an
arbour, a covered-in place. There are many descriptions of
such arbours in the fourteenth century, and it was the custom
to turf them. The herbarium may, however, have been a small
private garden, planted with herbs, with high thick hedges.
The garden at Clarendon was enclosed by a paling,* * * §
while those of Windsort and Kennington J were enclosed
by a ditch. In 1260 more alterations were carried out in
the garden outside Windsor Castle; the gardener’s house was
moved, and a further wall built. During many successive
reigns this garden at Windsor was kept up, and from time to
time improved, and the orchard or vineyard was extended.
Entries of the wages paid to the gardener and the vine dresser
occur in many of the household accounts preserved in the
Record Office. The gardener received 100s. a year, the
labourers 2kd. a day. It is curious to note that the produce
of these gardens was sold, and it seems to have been the
exception when all the fruit was consumed by the king’s
household. In 1332 there is the following entry among the
receipts—“ 6s. 6d. received for the fruits and herbage of the
king’s garden outside the Castle,” § and other like entries
occur. In “ the account of Walter Hungerford, Knight,
Steward of the Household of King Henry V. and Constable
of the Castle of Wyndsore ” || (1419-22), “for any issues
arising from fruits of the garden and vines of the king there
in the two second years {sic) in the time of this account, he
does not answer, for that the fruits of the said garden were
delivered to the Household of the Lord the King there, and
the grapes of the vines there were eaten by the Ladies and
others of the King’s Household then being there, so that the
same Constable had not and could not have any profit thereof,
as he says upon his oath.”
* Liberate Roll, 37 Hen. III., m. 13.
flbid., 37 Hen. III., m. 17.
+ Ibid.
§ Ministers’ Accounts. Bundle 753, No. 9.
|| Ibid. Bundle 755, No. 10.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
This looks as if it was what is usually understood by an
arbour, a covered-in place. There are many descriptions of
such arbours in the fourteenth century, and it was the custom
to turf them. The herbarium may, however, have been a small
private garden, planted with herbs, with high thick hedges.
The garden at Clarendon was enclosed by a paling,* * * §
while those of Windsort and Kennington J were enclosed
by a ditch. In 1260 more alterations were carried out in
the garden outside Windsor Castle; the gardener’s house was
moved, and a further wall built. During many successive
reigns this garden at Windsor was kept up, and from time to
time improved, and the orchard or vineyard was extended.
Entries of the wages paid to the gardener and the vine dresser
occur in many of the household accounts preserved in the
Record Office. The gardener received 100s. a year, the
labourers 2kd. a day. It is curious to note that the produce
of these gardens was sold, and it seems to have been the
exception when all the fruit was consumed by the king’s
household. In 1332 there is the following entry among the
receipts—“ 6s. 6d. received for the fruits and herbage of the
king’s garden outside the Castle,” § and other like entries
occur. In “ the account of Walter Hungerford, Knight,
Steward of the Household of King Henry V. and Constable
of the Castle of Wyndsore ” || (1419-22), “for any issues
arising from fruits of the garden and vines of the king there
in the two second years {sic) in the time of this account, he
does not answer, for that the fruits of the said garden were
delivered to the Household of the Lord the King there, and
the grapes of the vines there were eaten by the Ladies and
others of the King’s Household then being there, so that the
same Constable had not and could not have any profit thereof,
as he says upon his oath.”
* Liberate Roll, 37 Hen. III., m. 13.
flbid., 37 Hen. III., m. 17.
+ Ibid.
§ Ministers’ Accounts. Bundle 753, No. 9.
|| Ibid. Bundle 755, No. 10.