CHAPTER III 



THE FORMAL GARDEN — Continued 



It has been usual in dealing with gardens to 

 include some account of the numerous Herbals 

 which were published in England in the 

 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Strictly 

 speaking, these lie outside the scope of my 

 subject ; the Herbals are little more than cata- 

 logues raisonnes of the various fruits and flowers 

 grown in England at the time, with notes on 

 their medicinal qualities, and instructions as to 

 the proper times and methods of planting. 

 This has nothing to do with garden design. 

 As, however, the distinction between garden 

 design, horticulture, and botany was never very 

 clearly made, I give the dates of the principal 

 Herbals. 



Mr. Hazlitt gives a complete list of the 

 bibliography of gardening, but j as will appear 

 from the titles of the works there mentioned, 

 for the next fifty years after Lawson's book, 

 nearly all the treatises which are not Herbals 



