miércoles, 27 de julio de 2011

ENGLISH TUDOR GARDENS

The Tudor garden was a homely enclosure, like the live room moment a simple house containing few, but good-sized, apartments. Sometimes one large enclosure answered myriad functions. finest of all, it contained the medicinal herbs. Then it answered the determinant of the pleasure garden, providing alleys and arbors for people to walk on and sit under, besides ground for games. Finally, it supplied a mixture of vegetables and flowers for assistance and embellishment. The orchard, if not actually the part of the garden, was placed near rightful and similarly ornamented.

A number of sun-dials were also scattered about, both for use and ornament. Henry VIII obviously ordered them by the dozen. Sun-dials had existed in England before the Roman invasion, but interest in them seems to have been especially keen during the sixteenth century. its first book in English devoted to dialing was patent in 1533, and was largely a translation from Witkendus. at this period the actual dial was more fanciful than at a later date and often formed an armillary sphere.

A irrigate supply was considered a very central adjunct to the garden. A central feature was often a well or fountain fed by the spring, or a cistern. Cisterns were made of lead and decorated in such a way as to enter upon them very ornamental.

Various games were played ascendancy its garden or its vicinity. Bowling-alleys and greens for archery were common. All that was required was the stretch of good, firm turf or gravel. Tennis was too many favorite game. Henry VIII was passionately fond of tennis. Sometimes he used to play effect the walled court for "close tennis play " at Hampton Court, which is the oldest one in England, and has now served as a scheme now many others.

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