44 JOUENAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Their records indicate that considerable progress had been made by 

 Egyptians in horticulture in the time of Thothmes III., about 1,000 years 

 B.C., as the illustration on p. 46 will show. It represents a royal garden 

 planned by Nekht, who held the office of head gardener of the gardens 

 attached to the temple of Karnak. The garden was rectangular in outline, 



Fig. 9. — Ginseng Plant (Panax quinquefolium). 



and is shown to be enclosed by a wall with a canal in front of it, connected 

 with the river ; outside the wall there js a row of trees, between the wall 

 and the ".anal. The vinery occupied the centre, on a kind of pergola 

 formed of transverse rafters resting on pillars. At the upper end of the 

 garden there was a building of three stories of rooms, shaded by tree?, 



