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English monastic gardens left are vestiges and limited reliable records behind. he planting and arrangement showing the cloisters containing a herbarium and a conduit—with the fish-pond, orchard, and vineyard outside the walls is presented in twelfth-century plan of Canterbury, but it merely provides a general concept of the garden

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There are not lots of traces or exact records of English monastic gardens left today. A twelfth-century plan of Canterbury presents only a vague notion of the planting and structure; it demonstrates the cloisters containing a herbarium and a conduit—with the fish-pond, orchard, and vineyard outside the walls. However, even though t