Appendix 333

ELIZABETHAN GARDENS AT SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE 333

INDEX 347

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Stratford-upon-Avon, New Place, Border of Annuals Frontispiece

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Fifteenth Century Garden within Castle Walls, French 8

Lovers in the Castle Garden, Fifteenth Century MS. 17

Garden of Delight, Romaunt of the Rose, Fifteenth Century 17

Babar's Garden of Fidelity 20

Italian Renaissance Garden, Villa Giusti, Verona 29

John Gerard, Lobel and Parkinson 32

Nicholas Leate 36

The Knot-Garden, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon 45

Typical Garden of Shakespeare's Time, Crispin de Passe (1614) 56

Labyrinth, Vredeman de Vries 64

A Curious Knotted Garden, Crispin de Passe (1614) 64

The Knot-Garden, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon 72

Border, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon 81

Herbaceous Border, New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon 88

Carnations and Gilliflowers; Primroses and Cowslips; and Daffodils: from Parkinson 97

Gardeners at Work, Sixteenth Century 112

Garden Pleasures, Sixteenth Century 112

Garden in Macbeth's Castle of Cawdor 116

Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon 125

Elizabethan Manor House, Haddon Hall 136

Rose Arbor, Warley, England 145

Red, White, Damask and Musk-Roses; Lilies and Eglantines and Dog-Roses: from Parkinson 160

Martagon Lilies, Warley, England 168

Wilton Gardens from de Caux 176

Wilton Gardens To-day 176

A Garden of Delight 184

Sir Thomas More's Gardens, Chelsea 193

Pleaching and Plashing, from The Gardener's Labyrinth 209

Small Enclosed Garden, from The Gardener's Labyrinth 209

A Curious Knotted Garden, Vredeman de Vries 224

Garden with Arbors, Vredeman de Vries 224

Shakespeare Garden, Van Cortlandt House Museum, Van Cortlandt Park, Colonial Dames of the State of New York 241

Tudor Manor House with Modern Arrangement of Gardens 256

Garden House in Old English Garden 272

Fountains, Sixteenth Century 289

Sunken Gardens, Sunderland Hall, with Unusual Treatment of Hedges 304

Knots from Markham 321

Simple Garden Beds 321