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 PART ONE THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT EVOLUTION OF THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN I _The Medieval Pleasance_ SHAKESPEARE was familiar with two kinds of gardens: the stately and magnificent garden that embellished the castles and manor-houses of the nobility and gentry; and the small and simple garden such as he had himself at Stratford-on-Avon and such as he walked through when he visited Ann Hathaway in her cottage at Shottery.