shrubbery-garden

Updated: May 14, 2025

Below the grass- garden was one of similar size, all flower-beds, to supply roses, lilies, violets and other staple blossoms for his banqueting-hall, below the formal garden was one called the wild-garden or shrubbery-garden, like the grass-garden in being covered with sward almost from wall to wall, but unlike it, in that it had four shade trees, no two alike, and many flowering shrubs of all kinds and sizes.

Edward Lucas White - Andivius Hedulio : Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire