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PREFACE 



new "outlandish" flowers, such as the crown-impe- 

 rial just introduced from Constantinople and "lark's 

 heels trim" from the West Indies. 



Shakespeare no doubt visited Master Tuggie's 

 garden at Westminster, in which Ralph Tuggie and 

 later his widow, "Mistress Tuggie," specialized in 

 carnations and gilliflowers, and the gardens of 

 Gerard, Parkinson, Lord Zouche, and Lord Bur- 

 leigh. In addition to these, he knew the gardens 

 of the fine estates in Warwickshire and the simple 

 cottage gardens, such as charm the American visitor 

 in rural England. When Shakespeare calls for a 

 garden scene, as he does in "Twelfth Night," 

 "Romeo and Juliet," and "King Richard II," it is 

 the "stately garden" that he has in his mind's eye, 

 the finest type of a Tudor garden, with terraces, 

 "knots," and arbors. In "Love's Labour's Lost" is 

 mentioned the "curious knotted garden." 



Realizing the importance of reproducing an ac- 

 curate representation of the garden of Shakespeare's 

 time the authorities at Stratford-upon-Avon have 

 recently rearranged "the garden" of Shakespeare's 

 birthplace; and the flowers of each season succeed 

 each other in the proper "knots" and in the true 

 Elizabethan atmosphere. 'Of recent years it has 

 been a fad among American garden lovers to set 



