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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
At Drayton, an Elizabethan house in the same county as
Kirby, there is a wide terrace against the outer wall of the
garden with a summer-house at each end, as well as a terrace
in front of the house, and other examples exist.
The “ forthrights,” or walks which formed the main lines of
the garden design, were “ spacious and fair.” Bacon describes
the width of the path by which the mount is to be ascended as
wide “ enough for four to walk abreast/’ and the main walks
were wider still, broad and long, and covered with “ gravel, sand
or turf.” * There were two kinds of walks, those in the open
part of the garden, with beds geometrically arranged on either
side, and sheltered walks laid out between high clipped hedges,
or between the main enclosure wall and a hedge; there
were also the “covert walks,” or “shade alleys,” in which the
trees met in an arch over the path. Some of the walks were
turfed, and some were planted with sweet-smelling herbs.
“ Those which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by
as the rest, but being trodden upon and crushed, are three—that
is, burnet, wild thyme and water-mints ; therefore you are to
set whole alleys of them to have the pleasure when you walk
or tread.” f It appears from a passage in Shakespeare,
i Henry IV., act ii. scene 4, that camomile was used in the same
way. Falstaff says, “For though camomile, the more it is
trodden on the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is
wasted, the soonei' it wears.”
In contrast to this the “ closer alleys must be ever finely
gravelled and no grass, because of going wet.” J Thomas Hill §
writes, the “ walkes of the garden ground, the allies even
trodden out, and leuelled by a line, as either three or four foote
abroad, may cleanely be sifted ouer with riuer or sea sand, to
the end that showers of raine falling, may not offend the
walkers (at that instant) in them, by the earth cleauing or
■clagging to their feete.” Parkinson also has something to say
about walks : “ The fairer and larger your allies and walks be,
the more grace your garden shall have, the lesse harm the
* Lawson, A New Orchard. 1597.
f Bacon, Essay.
j Bacon, Essay.
§ Gardener s Labyrinth.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
At Drayton, an Elizabethan house in the same county as
Kirby, there is a wide terrace against the outer wall of the
garden with a summer-house at each end, as well as a terrace
in front of the house, and other examples exist.
The “ forthrights,” or walks which formed the main lines of
the garden design, were “ spacious and fair.” Bacon describes
the width of the path by which the mount is to be ascended as
wide “ enough for four to walk abreast/’ and the main walks
were wider still, broad and long, and covered with “ gravel, sand
or turf.” * There were two kinds of walks, those in the open
part of the garden, with beds geometrically arranged on either
side, and sheltered walks laid out between high clipped hedges,
or between the main enclosure wall and a hedge; there
were also the “covert walks,” or “shade alleys,” in which the
trees met in an arch over the path. Some of the walks were
turfed, and some were planted with sweet-smelling herbs.
“ Those which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by
as the rest, but being trodden upon and crushed, are three—that
is, burnet, wild thyme and water-mints ; therefore you are to
set whole alleys of them to have the pleasure when you walk
or tread.” f It appears from a passage in Shakespeare,
i Henry IV., act ii. scene 4, that camomile was used in the same
way. Falstaff says, “For though camomile, the more it is
trodden on the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is
wasted, the soonei' it wears.”
In contrast to this the “ closer alleys must be ever finely
gravelled and no grass, because of going wet.” J Thomas Hill §
writes, the “ walkes of the garden ground, the allies even
trodden out, and leuelled by a line, as either three or four foote
abroad, may cleanely be sifted ouer with riuer or sea sand, to
the end that showers of raine falling, may not offend the
walkers (at that instant) in them, by the earth cleauing or
■clagging to their feete.” Parkinson also has something to say
about walks : “ The fairer and larger your allies and walks be,
the more grace your garden shall have, the lesse harm the
* Lawson, A New Orchard. 1597.
f Bacon, Essay.
j Bacon, Essay.
§ Gardener s Labyrinth.