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tumble-down or overgrown remains of one in the corner of 
some, perchance, neglected garden could possibly do : 
“ And over him Art, striving to compare 
With Nature, did an arbour green dispread, 
Fram’d of wanton ivy, flow’ring fair, 
Through which the fragrant eglantine did spread 
His prickling arms, entrail’d with roses red 
Which dainty odours round about them threw : 
And all within with flow’rs was garnished. 
That, when mild Zephyrus amongst them blew. 
Did breathe out bounteous smells and painted colour shew.” 
Book II., Canto V., 29. 
The maze was another feature which now became prominent 
in many gardens. “ There be some that set their mazes with 
Lavender, cotton spike, majoram and such like, or Isope and 
Time, or quickset, privet, plashed fruit trees.” 1 Lawson gives 
directions for making mazes, and says: “ When they are well 
formed of a man’s height, your friend may perhaps wander in 
gathering berries till he cannot recover himself without your 
help.” Thomas Hill gives two designs for mazes, though he 
says they are not “ for any necessary commodotie in a garden, 
but rather ” . . . “ that who so listeth having such room 
in their garden may place the one of them ... in that void 
place . . . that may best be spared for the only purpose to sport 
in them at times.” Many people, on the mention of the word 
“ maze,” will think at once of the well-known example at 
Hampton Court, which affords so much amusement to thou¬ 
sands of Londoners and holiday-makers ; but that was not laid 
out till a very much later date, probably in the year 1700. 
Trees cut in fantastical shapes were frequently to be found 
between the hedges, dotted about and arranged so as to form 
vistas and walks. Bacon advises in “ ordering of the ground 
within the great hedge ”... that “ it be not too busy or full 
of work,” or, in more modern language, not too elaborate, and 
he adds, “ I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper 
or other garden stuff-—they be for children. Little low hedges 
round like welts, with some pretty pyramids, I like well, and 
in some places, fair columns.” 
The idea that cut trees were generally yews is very prevalent, 
1 Thomas Hill. 
