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Plan of Bicester Priory ..... 

 Vine Pruners. From an Anglo-Saxon MS., eleventh century 

 Ashridge. From a photograph .... 

 The Eagle Pond, Newstead Abbey. From a photograph 

 Garden in a Town. From French MS., late fifteenth century 

 Grafting. From the Arte of Planting and Grafting, by Leonard 



Mascall, 1592 .... 



Turfed Seat in a garden wall. From Roman de la Rose, Flemish 



MS., late fifteenth century . 

 Arbour, from the same MS. 



Fountain, from an English MS., " Speculum," c. 1450 

 Garden, from Flemish MS. of the Roman de la Rose, late fifteenth 



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The Feate of Gardening, by Ion Gardener, MS. c. 1440, Trinity 



College, Cambridge .... 

 Railed Flower Bed. From French MS. of the Roman de la 



Rose, c. 1450 ..... 



The Mount, Rockingham. From a drawing by Howard Carter 

 Old Yew Walk and Mount, Rockingham. From a photograph 

 Garden with a gallery. From " The Second Booke of Flowers 



Fruicts, Beastes, Birds and Flies," 1650 

 Garden House, Loseley. From a drawing by Howard Carter 

 Knot from the " Gardener's Labyrinth " 



Picture at Hampton Court, showing the railed beds and beasts 

 Apricot Trees on old garden wall, Littlecote. From a drawing 



by Howard Carter .... 

 From " Gardener's Labyrinth " . 

 Tools used in Grafting .... 

 Pleached Alley at Drayton. From a photograph 

 Boscobel in j 894. From a photograph . 

 Boscobel in 1660. From an old print 

 Maze. From the Art of Gardening 

 Heslington. From a photograph 

 Example of Topiary Work in Cottage Garden, Haddon. From a 



drawing by Lady William Cecil 

 Charter of the Gardeners' Company 

 Castle Bromwich. From a photograph . 

 Orange Court at Burghley House. From a Picture at Burghley 

 L'Obel. From an Engraving in the Tyssen Library, Hackney 



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