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TUDOR GARDEN HOUSE, LOSELEY- - - - * 74 



From a drawing by Howard Carter. 



RAILED FLOWER-BED - - - - - 76 



From French MS. of the ' ' Roman de la Rose, ' ' c. 1430. (B. M. Egerton, 



2,022.) 



PART OF A PICTURE AT HAMPTON COURT SHOWING THE RAILED 



BEDS AND BEASTS - - j6 



KNOT ....... 76 



From the " Gardener's Labyrinth," by Didymous Mountain, iff?. 



THE EAGLE POND, NEWSTEAD ABBEY - - - 78 



APRICOT-TREES ON OLD GARDEN WALL, LITTLECOTE - 84 



TOOLS USED IN GRAFTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 84 



I 

 MAZE ......... 96 



From the " Arte of Gardening," by Thomas Hill, 1568. 



GRAFTING - 96 



From the " Arte of Gardening," by Leonard Mascall, 1J92. 



CORNER OF A WALLED GARDEN - - - - 96 



From " Gardener's Labyrinth" 15TJ. 



PLEACHED ALLEY AT DRAYTON - - - - - IOO 



BOSCOBEL IN 1660 - - ... io2 



BOSCOBEL AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY - - 102 



EXAMPLE OF TOPIARY WORK IN COTTAGE GARDEN, HADDON - 1 06 

 From a drawing by Lady William Cecil. 



ELIZABETHAN TOPIARY WORK, HESLINGTON - 106 



CHARTER OF THE GARDENER'S COMPANY- - n8 



CASTLE BROMWICH - - - - 126 



From Dugdale's "Antiquities of Warwickshire" 1730. 



CASTLE BROMWICH AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1 26 



ORANGE COURT AT BURGHLEY HOUSE - - 1 38 



From a picture in the possession of the Marquess of Exeter. 



l'obel - - - - - 146 



From an engraving in the Tyssen Library, Hackney. 



GERARD ... . jjq 



From the title-page of his " Herbal," 1397. 



