TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Prologue ...,..., vii 

 List of Illustrations ...... xiv 



Hortorum Laudes ....... xvi 



CHAPTER I 



Ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, Persian, Syrian, Greek 

 AND Roman Gardens 



Egyptian MS. {i^th Dynasty) — Solomon — Homer — Xenophon — Plato — 

 Aristotle — Theophrastus — Epicurus — Theocritus — Cato — Cicero — 

 Varro — Diodorus Siculus — Pliny the elder — Pliny the younger — 

 Plutarch — Columella — Tacitus — Seneca — Quintilian — Lucian — 

 Palladius ......... 1-22 



CHAPTER II 



Some Early Christian and Late Pagan Writers 

 on the Garden 



St Jerome— T'Ao Yiian-ming—Longus—Tatius— Mohammad— Chou-tun-i 



— Lien-tschen — William of Malmesbury . . . 23-29 



CHAPTER III 



Mediaeval, Renaissance and Tudor Gardens 



Neckham — Petrarch — St Bernard — Brunetto Latini — Maundeville — 



Boccaccio — Machiavelli — Erasmus — More — Luther — Gawen' Douglas - 1 

 — Baber — Fitzherbarde — Polydore Vergil — C. Estienne — Palissy — Du 

 Cerceau — Heresbach — Googe — Montaigne — Tasso — Treveris — 

 Leland — Coesalpinus — De Serres ..... 30-61 



CHAPTER IV 



Elizabethan and Stuart Gardens 



Gerarde — Lyly — Sidney — Bacon — Hentzner — Drayton — Parkinson — Hill 

 {Dydymus Mountaine) — Maschal — Lawson — Laneham — Wotton — 

 Bishop Hall — Burton — Taylor [the Water Poet) — Comenius — Harrison 

 — George Herbert — Gassendi — Howell — Sir W. Waller . . 62-93 



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