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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
Another example of an arbour or “ roosting-place,” was one
made for Elizabeth of York. “ io July 1502 Item payed to Henry
Smith clerc of the Castle of Wyndsor for money by him payed to
a certain labourer to make an herbour in the little park of
Wyndsor for a banket for the Queen iiijs. viijd.” Again, in the
eighteenth year of Henry VII., five shillings were paid for making
an arbour at Baynarde’s Castle, in London.*
The ordinary arbour was still like those described in earlier
times by Chaucer, with a turfed seat, and trellis covered with
climbing plants. One is thus spoken of by a poet of the Tudor
period t:—
“ The clowdis gan to clere, the myst was rarifiid
In an herber I saw, brought where I was,
There birdis on the brere sange on euery syde :—
With alys ensandid about in compas
The bankis enturfid with singular solas
Enrailed with rosers, and vinis engrapid ;—
It was a new comfort of sorowis escapid.”
Other resting-places were arranged along the garden-walls,
in the form of shady nooks and corners with grass banks to
serve as seats, such as that of which More, in his Utopia,
makes mention, when he writes :—■“ We all went to my house,
and entering into the garden, sat down on a green bank, and
entertained one another in discourse.” The arbour or garden-
house was sometimes of brick, or stone, built like a turret into
the wall; an early example of arbours like this exists at Loseley,
in Surrey. There were originally four houses, one at each
corner of the garden-wall, and three of these remain. Another
interesting garden of this date is at the Palace, Hadham, in
Hertfordshire, which, for many hundred years, belonged to the
Bishops of London. It was also the dwelling-place of Katherine,
widow of Henry V., after her marriage with Owen Tudor, and
it was here that Edmund, father of Henry VIE, was born.
The garden at the present day is surrounded on two sides by
a wall, while the other side is protected by a high yew hedge,
three yards thick.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, a new flower-bed
* Wardrobe Accounts.
J Skelton, Garlands of Laurell.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
Another example of an arbour or “ roosting-place,” was one
made for Elizabeth of York. “ io July 1502 Item payed to Henry
Smith clerc of the Castle of Wyndsor for money by him payed to
a certain labourer to make an herbour in the little park of
Wyndsor for a banket for the Queen iiijs. viijd.” Again, in the
eighteenth year of Henry VII., five shillings were paid for making
an arbour at Baynarde’s Castle, in London.*
The ordinary arbour was still like those described in earlier
times by Chaucer, with a turfed seat, and trellis covered with
climbing plants. One is thus spoken of by a poet of the Tudor
period t:—
“ The clowdis gan to clere, the myst was rarifiid
In an herber I saw, brought where I was,
There birdis on the brere sange on euery syde :—
With alys ensandid about in compas
The bankis enturfid with singular solas
Enrailed with rosers, and vinis engrapid ;—
It was a new comfort of sorowis escapid.”
Other resting-places were arranged along the garden-walls,
in the form of shady nooks and corners with grass banks to
serve as seats, such as that of which More, in his Utopia,
makes mention, when he writes :—■“ We all went to my house,
and entering into the garden, sat down on a green bank, and
entertained one another in discourse.” The arbour or garden-
house was sometimes of brick, or stone, built like a turret into
the wall; an early example of arbours like this exists at Loseley,
in Surrey. There were originally four houses, one at each
corner of the garden-wall, and three of these remain. Another
interesting garden of this date is at the Palace, Hadham, in
Hertfordshire, which, for many hundred years, belonged to the
Bishops of London. It was also the dwelling-place of Katherine,
widow of Henry V., after her marriage with Owen Tudor, and
it was here that Edmund, father of Henry VIE, was born.
The garden at the present day is surrounded on two sides by
a wall, while the other side is protected by a high yew hedge,
three yards thick.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, a new flower-bed
* Wardrobe Accounts.
J Skelton, Garlands of Laurell.