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was similar to that of Elizabethan days ; the same 

 men and their followers being still alive, and 

 forming a link with earlier times and by their 

 influence upholding the old ways, so frequently 

 discarded by the rising generation as being 

 primitive and unsatisfactory. 



In 1618, William Lawson, "the Izaack Walton 

 of Gardens," published his " New Orchard and 

 Garden" a book that contained practical knowledge 

 and an honest delight in flowers and birds. He 

 writes with genuine love of Nature, and flowers for 

 " the Flower Garden." 



Each new work gave a stimulus to the increasing 

 love of Gardens. Early in King James's reign the 

 exchange between Sir Robert Cecil and his Royal 

 master took place, Theobalds for Hatfield. 



The latter was soon planned out by its new 

 owner, and still retains much beauty of design and 

 character, especially the "Privy Garden" with its 

 " Pleached Alley " and the Vineyard long known 

 as "the rarity." 



Much of the success of the Gardens at Hatfield 

 was owing to Lord Salisbury's Gardener, John 

 Tradescant, the second of the name "that painful 

 industrious searcher and lover of all Nature's 

 varieties/' as Parkinson calls him. " His was the 

 age of florists, and the chief ornaments of the 

 Parterres were owing to his labours" in travelling 

 and discoveries. The Tradescants had a large 



