CONTENTS 



PART ONE 

 THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT 



PAGE 



EVOLUTION OF THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN ... 3 



I. The Medieval Pleasance .... 3 



II. Garden of Delight . , , ; . . . 1 1 



III. The Italian Renaissance Garden . 15 



IV. Bagh-i-Vafa . . , , .... 19 

 V. New Fad for Flowers * .... 21 



VI. Tudor Gardens . . . . i / f . 25 



VII. Garden Pleasures ...... f 29 



THE CURIOUS KNOTTED GARDEN ...... 31 



I. Flower Lovers and Herbalists ... 31 



II. The Elizabethan Garden ^ . . . . 40 



III. Old Garden Authors . . . ,>/ .. 68 



IV. "Outlandish" and English Flowers . 78 



PART TWO 

 THE FLOWERS OF SHAKESPEARE 



SPRING : "THE SWEET o' THE YEAR" . . . . . 93 

 I. Primroses, Cowslips, and Oxlips . . 93 

 II. "Daffodils That Come Before the Swal- 

 low Dares" ,>>-. "7 .... 109 



III. "Daisies Pied and Violets Blue" . . 118 



IV. "Lady-smocks All Silver White" and 



"Cuckoo-buds of Every Yellow Hue" 130 

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