TUDOR GARDENS 115 



" Then we went to the garden glorious, 

 Like to a place of pleasure most solacious 

 With Flora painted and wrought curiously 

 In divers knottes of marvaylous greteness ; 

 Rampande lyons stood up wonderfly 

 Made all of herbes with dulcet sweetness, 

 With many dragons of marvaylous likeness, 

 Of divers floures made ful craftely, 

 By Flora couloured with colours sundry." 



The more rare and beautiful flowers were planted 

 in the knots, and clipped evergreen shrubs accented 

 the corners of the beds or the centre of the garden. 



A maze, or labyrinth, was another favourite orna- The maze, 

 mental design, and sometimes filled the place of the 

 knots. Occasionally it was planted with hedges high 

 enough to conceal the intricacies of the paths, and to 

 force the uninitiated to wander long 

 upon the outskirts, unable to penetrate 

 within ; but often it was merely out- 

 lined with lavender or some other low- 

 growing plant, and served simply as a 

 form of decoration. The central object 

 point was usually an arbour or a clipped 

 tree. 



Trelliswork of wood was as much em- s ^-^ "*' Treiiis- 



work. 



ployed as it had been in the Middle Ages. It usually 

 formed a diamond-shaped lozenge, as in the illustra- 

 tion, and was employed to fence in the flower-beds 



