CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. MONASTIC GARDENING . .1 



II. THIRTEENTH CENTURY . 33 



III. FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES . . 45 



IV. EARLY GARDEN LITERATURE . . . .65 



V. EARLY TUDOR GARDENS . * 77 



VI. ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDEN . . .- 1 09 



VII. KITCHEN GARDENING UNDER ELIZABETH AND JAMES I. 135 



VIII. ELIZABETHAN GARDEN LITERATURE . \ . 165 



IX. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY .... 179 



X. GARDENING UNDER WILLIAM AND MARY . . 213 



XI. DAWN OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING . . . 235 



XII. LANDSCAPE GARDENING . . . . ' 263 



XIII. NINETEENTH CENTURY .... 287 



APPENDIX 



SURVEYS OF WIMBLEDON AND THEOBALDS, 1649 3 T 5 

 LIST OF PRINTED BOOKS ON GARDENING CHRONOLOGICALLY 



ARRANGED DOWN TO THE YEAR 1837 33 1 



NAMES OF THE AUTHORS OF WORKS ON GARDENING . 389 

 INDEX . . . . . . -395 



