LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Stratford-upon-Avon, New Place, Border of Annuals 



Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



Fifteenth Century Garden within Castle Walls, French 8 



Lovers in the Castle Garden, Fifteenth Century MS. . 17 

 Garden of Delight, Romaunt of the Rose, Fifteenth 



Century 17 



Babar's Garden of Fidelity . 20 



Italian Renaissance Garden, Villa Giusti, Verona . 29 



John Gerard, Lobel and Parkinson 32 



Nicholas Leate 36 



The Knot-Garden, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon . 45 



Typical Garden of Shakespeare's Time, Crispin de 



Passe (1614) 56 



Labyrinth, Vredeman de Vries 64 



A Curious Knotted Garden, Crispin de Passe (1614) 64 



The Knot-Garden, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon . 72 



Border, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon .... 81 



Herbaceous Border, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon 88 



Carnations and Gilliflowers ; Primroses and Cowslips ; 



and Daffodils: from Parkinson 97 



Gardeners at Work, Sixteenth Century . . . / 112 



Garden Pleasures, Sixteenth Century . . . . . 112 



Garden in Macbeth's Castle of Cawdor . . . . 116 



Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon . . 125 



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