July  5,  1900 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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RIVERS’ 
FRUIT  TREES, 
Roses,  Vines, 
FIGS,  oranges; 
AND 
Orchard-HouseV  Trees.^ 
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50  for  16/-  ;  100  for  28/-.  Doubles,  6  -  per  dozen. 
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SPECIALLY  SELECTED  ORCHID  PEAT. 
LIGHT  BROWN  FIBROUS  PEAT,  5/6  per  sack,  6  sacks, 
26/-;  sacks,  4d.  each 
-SHADINGS  and  GREENHOUSE  BLINDS  made  to  order, 
COARSE  SILVER  SAND,  1/9  per  bushel ;  15/-  per  half 
ton,  ;  26/-  per  ton,  in  2-bushel  bags,  4d.  each. 
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“WEST’S  Patent  VAPORISING 
FUMIGATOR. — Best  and  Che, i  pest,  for 
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years.  The  stove  only  requires  a  little 
spirits  to  saturate  the  asbestos,  so  may 
be  used  thousands  of  times  without  wick 
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“Orchid  Culture,”  3rd  Edition,  postage  3d. ;  gives 
full  particulars  of  tlie  cultivation  of  Orchids. 
THE  LEEDS  ORCHID  COMPANY,  EOUNDHAY,  LEEDS 
PE  OF  I  TABLE  ERUIT  GROWING  FOR 
COTTAGERS  and  SMALL  HOLDERS  of  LAND. 
The  Gold  Medal  Prize  Essay.  By  J.  Wright.  Written 
for  the  Worshipful  Company  of  Fruiterers.  Demy  8vo, 
price  1/-;  free  by  post,  1/3.— Journal  of  Horticulture 
Office  :  12.  Mitre  Court  Chambers.  Fleet  Street,  K.C. 
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EB.  hawthorn  &  CO.  Ltd.,  London  Works, 
•  READING.  (Name  Paper.) 
Jniiiiihil  ii);  |)oi'ti(!ultm:i'. 
THURSDAY,  JULY  5,  1900. 
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London,  post  free  for  a  Qu.arter,  3/9.  Editorial 
communications  must  be  addre.ssed  to  12,  Mitre 
Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street,  London. 
Knots. 
“Thy  curious  knotted  garden.” — Shakeisjjcai'e, 
0-DAY  there  is  a  faintly  perceptible 
longing  after  the  quaint  and  long- 
forgotten  garden  ways  and  garden 
designs  of  mediaeval  times,  and  it 
appears  to  be  quite  within  the 
bounds  of  probability  that  a  revival  of 
the  knot  may  occur  at  any  moment.  The 
decadent  carpet  bedding  has  been  to  some 
extent  identified  with  the  knot,  but  the 
dissimilarities  of  the  two  are,  or  were,  more  pro¬ 
nounced  than  any  likeness  they  possessed  in 
common,  and  if  knot  gardening  should  again 
become  popular,  something  different  from  the 
caipet  bed  must  obtain. 
The  knot  was  already  known  in  England  early 
in  the  sixteenth  century,  though  it  would  seem  to 
have  had  a  French' origin.  For  about  a  hundred 
years  it  occupied  a  place  in  the  best  gardens,  but 
by  the  beginning  of  the  succeeding  century  it 
began  to  he  considered  as  vulgar  and  common, 
though  it  liugered  on  for  yet  another  hundred 
years,  dying  out,  as  it  originated,  in  hazy  obscurity. 
The  knot  was  constantly  referred  to  by  writers 
who  flourished  during  the  middle  period  of  its 
sway;  but  it  will  be  remembered  that  Bacon 
belittled  it,  and  also  IMilton,  who  found  no  place 
for  it  ill  his  primeval  garden — certain  indications 
both  of  its  falling  into  disrepute. 
In  its  earliest  conception  the  knot  would  be,  no 
doubt,  a  simple  composition,  such  for  instance  as 
that  which  appears  in  “  The  Proffitable  Arte  of 
Gardening,”  or  in  Lawson’s  “  Orchard,”  which 
shows  a  circle,  intersected  by  two  triangles  inter¬ 
laced.  Equally  simple  in  design  is  the  series  ot 
knots  in  “  The  Countrie  Housewife’s  Garden. 
A  little  earlier  than  the  last  named,  Surfleel  s 
“  Countrie  Farme,”  and  also  Markham’s  edition  of 
the  same  work,  contain  elaborately  I’esigned 
examples  of  knots,  some  of  them  enclosed  by 
borders  which  corresponded  in  character.  These, 
however,  are  merely  copies,  or  perhaps  impressions, 
from  a  much  earlier  French  work,  and  conse¬ 
quently  are  largely  valuable  only  as  a  means  ot 
No.  2701.— VoL.  CHI.,  OLD  Series. 
