CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. MONASTIC GARDENING - - I 



II. THIRTEENTH CENTURY ... 30 



III. FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES - - 4' 



IV. EARLY GARDEN LITERATURE - - - 58 

 V. EARLY TUDOR GARDENS - - - 69 



VI. THE ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDEN - - "94 



VII. KITCHEN GARDENING UNDER ELIZABETH AND JAMES I. - Il6 



VIII. ELIZABETHAN GARDEN LITERATURE I44 



\^X. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - - - - 156 



X. GARDENING UNDER WILLIAM AND MARY - - - 201 



XI. DAWN OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING - - - - 221 



XII. LANDSCAPE GARDENING ----- 243 



XIII. NINETEENTH CENTURY - - - 266 



XIV. MODERN GARDENING - - - 306 



APPENDIX 



SURVEYS OF WIMBLEDON AND THEOBALDS, 1649 - - 317 

 LIST OF ENGLISH PRINTED BOOKS ON GARDENING CHRONO- 

 LOGICALLY ARRANGED DOWN TO THE YEAR 1837 332 

 NAMES OF THE AUTHORS OF WORKS ON GARDENING 



ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY - - 378 



INDEX 



384 



