34 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
ticular garden of Shakespeare’s time, and the limited area 
makes impossible anything but a garden in miniature. It 
will, however, embody most of the features that characterized 
the gardens of the Elizabethan period, the accompanying 
plan giving a good idea of the arrangement. The house will 
be divided into three square gardens, each 50 x 50 feet, the 
parterre, the trellised garden, and the topiarian garden, each 
dominated by several Elizabethan motifs. 
The balcony of the floral display house, with the pool and 
THE GARDEN AND MAZE AT HATFIELD HOUSE, HERTFORDSHIRE, 
BUILT 1605 AND RESTORED. 
fountain below, lends itself admirably to the scheme, and 
affords a good view of the parterre or knot and the gardens 
beyond. The pattern to be used in this parterre was one very 
popular in Shakespearean times. The flower beds along the 
sides, as well as the parterre itself, will be bordered with a 
hedge of privet and juniper. 
The trellised garden, as its name implies, will be enclosed 
by a high trellis with arched entrances, over which are to be 
trained climbing roses and other vines. This garden will be 
terraced, with turfed slopes, and flower beds and graveled 
walks above. The plan of the interior was taken from the 
lower garden at Montacute, the central portion being de- 
