38 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND n knots for thyme or hyssop. In 1577 a new book appeared, entitled The Gardener s Labyrinth, containing " a discourse of the gardener's life, etc., wherein are set forth divers Herbers, knots, and mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens, etc., gathered … Fig. 5. — From The Gardener's Labyrinth. out of the best approved writers of Garden- ing, Husbandrie, and Physicke, by Didymus Mountaine." It appears, from the dedication to Lord Burghley, that this book was edited by Henry Dethicke after the death of Mountaine. The book is nothing more than an…
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