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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
TO FACE PAGE 
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. 1450. (B. M. Egerton, 
2,022.) 
PART OF A PICTURE AT HAMPTON COURT SHOWING THE RAILED 
BEDS AND BEASTS - - - - - 76 
KNOT -------- 76 
From the “ Gardener's Labyrinth ,” by Didymous Mountain, 7577. 
THE EAGLE POND, NEWSTEAD ABBEY - - - 78 
APRICOT-TREES ON OLD GARDEN WALL, LITTLECOTE - - 84 
TOOLS USED IN GRAFTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY - 84 
MAZE -------- 96 
From the “ Arte of Gardening ,” by Thomas Hill, 1568. 
GRAFTING ------ - 96 
From the “ Arte of Gardening ” by Leonard Mascall, 1592. 
CORNER OF A WALLED GARDEN - - - - 96 
From “ Gardener's Labyrinth ,” 7577. 
PLEACHED ALLEY AT DRAYTON - - - - - IOO 
BOSCOBEL IN 1660 ------ I02 
BOSCOBEL AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY - - 102 
EXAMPLE OF TOPIARY WORK IN COTTAGE GARDEN, HADDON - I06 
From a drawing by Lady William Cecil. 
ELIZABETHAN TOPIARY WORK, HESLINGTON - - - 106 
CHARTER OF THE GARDENER’S COMPANY- - - - Il8 
CASTLE BROMWICH - - - - - - 1 26 
From Dugdale's “ Antiquities of Warwickshire,” 1730. 
CASTLE BROMWICH AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 126 
ORANGE COURT AT BURGHLEY HOUSE - - - - T38 
From a picture in the possession of the Marquess of Exeter. 
l’obel - - - - - - 146 
From an engraving in the Tyssen Library, Hackney. 
GERARD - - - - - - “ - 150 
From the title-page of his “ Herbal 7597. 
