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 IN EARLY TIMES. 309 design, were sometimes erected in the gardens of the wealthy. The engraving prefixed to this article, copied from a manu- script of the fourteenth century, represents a flower garden, or lawn, separated by a wooden i)aling from the orchard, where a gardener is busied in pruning "". Our ancestors seem to have been very fond of the green- sward, and any resemblance to modern flower-beds is rarely seen in the illustrations of old manuscripts ; where flowers are rei)rcsented so planted they are generally surrounded by a wattled fence. The annexed cut, copied from a manuscript of GABDEN OF THE XVth CENTURT. (From a MS, of the Romaimt de la Rose, Britisli Museum.) the fifteenth centuiy, proves that the ordinary form of the " erbour" has not undergone any change since that age, and it also shews how the " seats and banks of camamile" or other flowers, referred to by Lawson, were constructed. A bank of earth appears to have been thrown up against the enclosure wall, the front of it was then faced with brick or stone, and the mould being reduced to an even smface was VOL. V. •" It is taken from a niiniatuie in the lloniaunt de la Rose. S S