"THE CURIOUS KNOTTED GARDEN" 85 



tieth every one's affection with great earnestness 

 both to like and to have them?" 



Of the overwhelming number he singles out the 

 red and gray Hulo, the old carnation, the Grand 

 Pere; the Cambersive, the Savadge, the Chrystal, the 

 Prince, the white carnation or delicate, the ground 

 carnation, the French carnation, the Dover, the Ox- 

 ford, the Bristow, the Westminster, the Daintie, the 

 Granado, and the orange tawny gilliflower and its 

 derivatives, the Infanta, the striped tawny, the 

 speckled tawny, the flaked tawny, the Grifeld 

 tawny, and many others. 



Many sweet pinks are included, "all very sweet 

 coming near the Gilliflowers, Sweet Williams and 

 Sweet Johns," both single and double, red and 

 spotted, "and a kind of wild pinks, which for their 

 beauty and grace help to furnish a garden." Then, 

 too, we have peonies, double and single ; hollyhocks, 

 single and double; and roses. 



The Elizabethan gardens, therefore, presented a 

 magnificent array of flowers ; and it was not only in 

 the grand gardens of castles and manor-houses, but 

 in the estates of London merchants along the Strand 

 and of the florists in Holborn, Westminster, and 

 elsewhere that fine flower shows were to be enjoyed 





