22 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



built in 1586 by Sir Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 

 who died in 1615. The flowers at this period were 

 the same for palace and cottage. Tudor gardens 

 bloomed with acanthus, asphodel, auricula, ane- 

 mone, amaranth, bachelor's buttons, cornflowers or 

 "bottles," cowslips, daffodils, daisies, French broom 

 (genista), gilliflowers (three varieties), hollyhock, 

 iris, jasmine, lavender, lilies, lily-of-the-valley, 

 marigold, narcissus (yellow and white), pansies or 

 heartsease, peony, periwinkle, poppy, primrose, 

 rocket, roses, rosemary, snapdragon, stock gilli- 

 flowers, sweet william, wallflowers, winter cherry, 

 violet, mint, marjoram, and other sweet-smelling 

 herbs. 



During "the great and spacious time" of Queen 

 Elizabeth there was an enormous development in 

 gardens. The Queen was extremely fond of flowers 

 and she loved to wear them. It must have pleased 

 her hugely when Spenser celebrated her as "Eliza, 

 Queen of the Shepherds," and painted her portrait 

 in one of the pretty enclosed gardens, seated among 

 the fruit-trees, where the grass was sprinkled with 

 flowers : 



See where she sits upon the grassy green, 



O seemly sight! 

 Yclad in scarlet, like a Maiden Queen, 



And ermines white; 



