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den," which also appeared about the time of Shake- 

 speare's death, the gardens of the period are per- 

 fectly described. Lawson was a practical gardener 

 and had a poetic appreciation of flowers and trees. 

 His book was long an authority. Every one had it. 

 Lawson writes quaintly and delightfully: 



"The Rose, red, damask, velvet and double- 

 double, Provence rose, the sweet musk Rose double 

 and single, the double and single white Rose, the 

 fair and sweet-scenting Woodbine double and single 

 and double-double, purple Cowslips and double- 

 double Cowslips, Primrose double and single, the 

 Violet nothing behind the best for smelling sweetly 

 and a thousand more will provoke your content. 



"And all these by the skill of your gardener, so 

 comely and orderly placed in your borders and 

 squares and so intermingled that none looking there- 

 on cannot but wonder to see what Nature corrected 

 by Art can do. 



"When you behold in divers corners of your 

 Orchard Mounts of stone, or wood, curiously 

 wrought within and without, or of earth covered 

 with fruit-trees: Kentish cherry, damsons, plums, 

 etc., with stairs of precious workmanship; and in 

 some corner a true Dial or Clock and some antique 

 works and especially silver-sounding music mixt 



