(Notre Dame de la Treille, Lille.)
(Notre Dame de la Treille, Lille.)
(Pavia.)
(Chartres.)
VI. HEDGE MAZES, FLORAL LABYRINTHS, ETC.
(i) Classical References
(Roman Topiary Work and Ornamental Gardening)
Pliny. "Hist. Nat.," XV. 30; XVI. 33; XXXVI. 13.
Pliny the Younger. Epist. V. 6.
(ii) Great Britain (General)
Hyll, T. (Didymus Mountayne.) "The Profitable Art of Gardening," 3rd edition, 1579, pp. 9, 15.
Islip, A. "The Orchard and the Garden," 1602, p. 48.
(Gathered from Dutch and French sources.)
Lawson, W. "A New Orchard and Garden," 1631.
(Afterwards embodied in K. Markham's "A New Way to Get Wealth," 1648, etc.)
Parkinson, J. "Paradisus in soli," 1629, Ch. II.
Meager, L. "The Compleat English Gardener," circ. 1685.
Harley Manuscripts. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5308 (71, a, 12).
(A seventeenth-century gardener's manuscript book, with two mazes.)
London, G., and Wise, H. "The Compleat Florist," 1706 afterwards published by J. Carpenter as "The Retir'd Gardener." (Primarily a translation of French works by L. Liger and F. Gentil.)
Langley, Batty. "New Principles of Gardening," 1728.
(Numerous maze designs.)
Switzer, S. "Ichnographia Rustica," 1742, Vol. II, p. 218.
Fullmer, S. "Gardener's Companion," 1781, p. 105.
Home, H. (Lord Kames.) "Elements of Criticism," 1796, Vol. II, p. 348.
(Criticism of mazes in gardens.)
Walpole, H. "Essay on Modern Gardening," 1785.
Robinson, W. "The English Flower Garden," 1921.
Macartney, Mervyn. "English Houses and Gardens of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," 1908.
(Article on hedges and mazes.)
Brown, A. J., in American Homes and Gardens, VII, November 1910, pp. 423–5.