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make a glorious show among the green leaves in 

 winter time when no other shrubs have fruit, or 

 leaves." 



For the borders of the knots, Parkinson recom- 

 mends thrift, hyssop and germander, but "chiefly 

 above all herbs the small low, or dwarf French or 

 Dutch box, because it is evergreen, thick and easily 

 cut and formed." 



Roses, he says, should be planted in "the outer 

 borders of the quarters, or in the middle of the long 

 beds" ; and lilies should be placed in a "small, round 

 or square in a knot without any tall flowers growing 

 about them." 



IV 



"Outlandish" and English Flowers 



The flowers for the knots, or beds, Parkinson di- 

 vides into two classes: the "Outlandish flowers" and 

 the "English flowers." 



Of the outlandish flowers first of all he mentions 

 daffodils, of which there were "almost a hundred 

 sorts, some either white, or yellow, or mixed, or 

 else being small or great, single or double, and some 

 having but one flower on a stalk; others, many." 

 Other daffodils were so exceedingly sweet that a 

 very few were sufficient to perfume a whole cham- 



