ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDEN. 1^5 



have survived. Parkinson says of the " use of the yew," " It is 

 found planted both in the corners of orchards and against the 

 windows of houses, to be both a shadow and an ornament, it 

 being always green." But of the privet he writes, " Because the 

 use of this plant is so much, and so frequent throughout all this 

 land, although for no other purpose but to make hedges or 

 arbours in gardens, &c., whereunto it is so apt, that no other can 



EXAMPLE OF TOPIARY WORK IN COTTAGE GARDEN, HADDON. 



be like unto it, to be cut, lead, and drawn into what forme one 

 will, either of beasts, birds, or men armed or otherwise : I could 

 not forget it, although it .... be an hedge bush." "Your 

 Gardiner," writes Lawson in 1618, " can frame your lesser wood 

 to the shape of men armed in the field, ready to give battell : or 

 swift-running Grey Hounds to chase the Deere, or hunt the 

 Hare. This kind of hunting shall not waste your corne, nor 

 much your coyne." Rosemary also was " sette by women for 



