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would confine them to geometric patterns: 1, for 

 my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or 

 other garden stuff, they be for children.' But then 

 Shakespeare had children and grandchildren; and, 

 besides, many children of the present day will visit 

 his garden, much taken, we may be sure, with such 

 curious devices, and delighting in our simple sweet 

 old English flowers very few of them, it is to 

 be hoped, serious little prigs, bursting with 

 botany. . . . 



THE "KNOTT GARDEN" 



"It is now necessary to say a few words about the 

 'Knott Garden' an enclosure which, being an in- 

 variable adjunct to every house of importance in 

 Shakespeare's time, is the most essential part of the 

 reconstruction, on Elizabethan lines, of the ground 

 about New Place. It need not, however, engage us 

 long : for M. Forestier's beautiful drawing of it rep- 

 resents it as it is to be, better than any amount of 

 wordy description. 



"The whole is closely modeled on the designs 

 and views shown in the contemporary books on 

 gardening; and for every feature there is unim- 

 peachable warrant. The enclosing palisade a very 

 favorite device of the Jacobean gardeners of 



