TABLE OF CONTENTS 



PACK 



PROLOGUE ......'.. vii 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . ., . . . . xiv 



Hortorum Laudes ....... xvi 



CHAPTER I 



ANCIENT EGYPTIAN, HEBREW, PERSIAN, SYRIAN, GREEK 

 AND ROMAN GARDENS 



Egyptian MS. (igth Dynasty] Solomon Homer Xenophon Plato 

 Aristotle Theophrastus Epicurus Theocritus Cato Cicero 

 Varro Diodorus Siculus Pliny the elder Pliny the younger 

 Plutarch Columella Tacitus Seneca Quintilian Lucian 

 Palladius . . . . . . . . . 1-22 



CHAPTER II 



SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN AND LATE PAGAN WRITERS 

 ON THE GARDEN 



St Jerome T'Ao Yuan-ming Longus Tatius Mohammad Chou-tun-i 



Lien-tschen William of Malmesbury . . . 23-29 



CHAPTER III 



MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE AND TUDOR GARDENS 



Neckham Petrarch St Bernard Brunette Latini Maundeville 

 Boccaccio Machiavelli Erasmus More Luther Gawen'Douglas 

 Baber Fitzherbarde Polydore Vergil C. Estienne Palissy Du 

 Cerceau Heresbach Googe Montaigne Tasso Treveris 

 Leland Coesalpinus De Serres ..... 30-61 



CHAPTER IV 



ELIZABETHAN AND STUART GARDENS 



Gerarde Lyly Sidney Bacon Hentzner Drayton Parkinson Hill 

 (Dydymus Mountaine) Maschal Lawson Laneham Wotton 

 Bishop Hall Burton Taylor (the Water Poet) Comenius Harrison 

 George Herbert Gassendi Howell Sir W. Waller . . 62-93 



