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Chapter: Introduction to garden ornament

English gardening in the middle of the 16th century

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But by the middle of the 16th century, the country, after being for long in a condition of constant warfare and trouble, was at last in a state of security. Money was in abundance and great houses were built that need no longer be fortified. Whereas forme