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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



Parkinson advises that the walks may be made of sufficient breadth, " for 

 the fairer and larger your allies and walks be, the more grace your Garden 

 shall have, the lesse harm the herbs and flowers shall receive, by passing by 

 them that grow next unto the allies sides, and the better shall your Weeders 

 cleanse both the beds and the allies." ^ 



Any account of 

 Tudor and Eliza- 

 bethan garden craft 

 must be somewhat 

 fragmentary from the 

 scantiness of surviving 

 specimens or of written 

 record. The garden 

 literature of the period 

 helps us little, the 

 writers being mostly 

 agricultural or medi- 

 cal. Amongst others, 

 Fitzherbert and Tus- 

 ser wrote on husban- 

 dry, Thomas Hill and 

 Leonard Mascall on 

 plant raising, growing, 

 and grafting. 



The first English 

 writer who gave direc- 

 tions upon the plan- 

 ning of gardens was 

 Dr. Andrew Boorde, 

 who published about 

 1540 The boke for to 

 Lerne a man to he wyse in buylding of his howse ; he gives much practical 

 advice which was, however, borrowed wholesale from Italian writers. Boorde 

 was followed by Thomas Tusser, who wrote a curious poem, A hundreth 



1 Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (The Earthly Paradise of Park-in-Sun) or a Garden of 

 all sorts of fleasant flowers, etc., 1629. 



JOHN GERARDE, FROM TITLE-PAGE OF HIS HERBAL, 1597- 



