The gardeners labyrinth. Containing a discovrse of the gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestowed on his plot of earth, for the vse of a garden: with instructions for the choice of seeds, apt times for sowing, setting, planting, and watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: wherein are set forth diuers herbers, knots, and mazes cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens. Also the physick benefit of each herb, plant, and flowre, with the vertues of the distilled waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare
The Gardeners Labyrinth is a 1608 London gardening manual by Thomas Hill, written for English gardeners and households, covering garden planning, sowing, and the medicinal uses of herbs. The single picture is a printer's or owner's heraldic device: a shield with three stars and a sword, flanked by palm-like fronds and a scroll reading Consilio et Armis above a crossed pair of arms or sprigs.
