26 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



"Great Herbal," from the French (1516) and the 

 "Herbals" published by William Turner, Dean of 

 Wells, who had a garden of his own at Kew, treat 

 of flowers chiefly with regard to their properties and 

 medical uses. 



The Renaissance did indeed "paint the lily" and 

 "throw a perfume on the violet" ;f or the New Age 

 brought recognition of their esthetic qualities and 

 taught scholastic minds that flowers had beauty and 

 perfume and character as well as utilitarian quali- 

 ties. Elizabeth as Queen had very different gardens 

 to walk in than the little one in the Tower of Lon- 

 don in which she took exercise as a young Princess 

 in 1564. 



Let us look at some of them. First, that of Rich- 

 mond Palace. Here the garden was surrounded by 

 a brick wall and in the center was "a round knot 

 divided into four quarters," with a yew-tree in the 

 center. Sixty-two fruit-trees were trained on the 

 wall. 



This seems to have been of the old type the 

 orchard-garden, where a few old favorite flowers 

 bloomed under the trees and in the central "knot," 

 or bed. In the Queen's locked garden at Havering- 

 atte- Bower trees, grass, and sweet herbs seem to have 

 been more conspicuous than the flowers. The 



