"THE CURIOUS KNOTTED GARDEN" 83 



cantha, or Prickly Coral Tree, doth remain with 

 green leaves all the year and may be plashed, or 

 laid down, or tyed to make up a fine hedge to border 

 the whole knot" and that "the Dwarf Bay, or 

 Mezereon, is most commonly either placed in the 

 middle of a knot, or at the corners thereof, and 

 sometimes all along a walk for the more grace." 



So much for the "outlandish" flowers! 



Turning now to the "English flowers," we find 

 that Parkinson includes primroses and cowslips, 

 single rose campions, white, red, and blush and the 

 double red campion and the Flower of Bristow, or 

 Nonesuch, "a kind of Campion, white and blush as 

 well as orange-color." And here Parkinson stops a 

 moment to talk about this Nonesuch, for he was so 

 fond of it that he holds it in his hand in the portrait 

 that appears as a frontispiece to his "Paradisus" and 

 from which our reproduction is made. Of it he 

 writes: "The orange color Nonesuch with double 

 flowers as is rare and not common so for his bravery 

 doth well deserve a Master of account that will take 

 care to keep and preserve it." 



Then he continues: Bachelors'-buttons, both 

 white and red; wall-flowers, double and single; 

 stock-gilliflowers, queen's gilliflowers (which some 

 call dame's violets and some winter gilliflowers, a 



