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Identifier: gardensofcelebri00macg (find matches)
Title: Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Jessie
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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state, and the courtyardw ould be crowded with men and horses on occasions commemoratedin the Parish annals by the usual charges for ringing the churchbells. There are some ancient and dusty fig trees in the inner court,and these, according to Tombs in the Curiosities of London, arethe offspring of two fine white fig trees which were traditionallyplanted by Cardinal Pole. The parent trees were more than fiftyfeet in height, and forty in breadth, and their circumferencetwenty-eight to twenty-one inches. Their immediate descendants,though showing signs of wear and tear, form a very interestinglink in the chain of historic happenings of which the old Palacehas been the scene ; events which have taken us from the daysof Baldwin, Chicherley, Morton, and Cranmer, to those of Laud,Juxon, and Tillotson. There are many fine old trees at Lambeth, and one would beglad to know who planted them, but alas ! in these gardens thereis no talking oak to tell us ! A distinct character is given to the 60
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