38 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND ii 



knots for thyme or hyssop. In 1577 a 

 new book appeared, entitled The Gardener s 

 Labyrinth, containing *' a discourse of the 

 gardener's life, etc., wherein are set forth divers 

 Herbers, knots, and mazes, cunningly handled 

 for the beautifying of gardens, etc., gathered 



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Fig. 5. — From The Gardener'' s Labyrinth, 



out of the best approved writers of Garden- 

 ing, Husbandrie, and Physicke, by Didymus 

 Mountaine." It appears, from the dedication 

 to Lord Burghley, that this book was edited by 

 Henry Dethicke after the death of Mountaine. 

 The book is nothing more than an enlarged 

 edition of Thomas Hill's Profitable Art. 

 Much of the text and several of the woodcuts 



