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TUDOR GARDEN HOUSE, LOSELEY - - - - - 74 



From a drawing by Howard Carter. 



RAILED FLOWER-BED - - - - - - 76 



From French MS. of the" Roman de la Rose, ' ' c. 1450. (B. Af. Egerton, 

 2,022.) 



PART OF A PICTURE AT HAMPTON COURT SHOWING THE RAILED 



BEDS AND BEASTS - - - - - - 76 



KNOT --..-... 76 



From the " Gardener's Labyrinth," by DiDYMOUS Mountain, 1,577. 



THE EAGLE POND, NEWSTEAD ABBEY - - - - 78 



APRICOT-TREES ON OLD GARDEN WALL, LITTLECOTE - - 84 



TOOLS USED IN GRAFTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY - 84 



MAZE ........ g(, 



From the " Arte of Gardening," by Thomas Hill, 1568. 



GRAFTING .------. 96 



From the " Arte of Gardening," by LEONARD Mascall, i^ga. 



CORNER OF A WALLED GARDEN - - - - - 96 



From " Gardener's Labyrinth" IS77' 



PLEACHED ALLEY AT DRAYTON - - - - - lOO 



BOSCOBEL IN 1660 - - - - - - I02 



BOSCOBEL AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY - - I02 



EXAMPLE OF TOPIARY WORK IN COTTAGE GARDEN, HADDON - I06 



From a drawing by Lady William Cecil. 



ELIZABETHAN TOPIARY WORK, HESLINGTON - - - I06 



CHARTER OF THE GARDENER's COMPANY- - - - I18 



CASTLE BROMWICH - - - - - - 1 26 



From Dugdale's ^'Antiquities of Warwickshire," 1730. 



CASTLE BROMWICH AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1 26 



ORANGE COURT AT BURGHLEY HOUSE - - - - 1 38 



From a picture in the possession of the Marquess of Exeter. 



l'obel -------- 146 



From an engraving in the Tyssen Library, Hackney. 



GERARD -------- 150 



From the title-page of his " Herbal," 1397. 



