THE FLORAL LABYRINTH AND THE DWARF-SHRUB MAZE
The Dwarf Box--Its use by Tudor and Roman Gardeners--Floral Labyrinths by De Vries--Some Quaint Horticultural Books: Parkinson, Estienne, Hill, and Lawson--Designs of Islip and Commelyn--"Queen Mary's Bower" 100-109
Topiary work of the Romans--Pliny's "Hippodromus"--Dubious Mediaeval References--Rosamond's Bower--Early French "Daedales"--Mazes painted by Holbein and Tintoretto-- Du Cerceau's Sketches--Elizabethan Mazes: Theobalds and Hatfield--Versailles and other Famous Labyrinths of France-- Some German Designs--Belgian, Spanish, Italian and Dutch Mazes--William III and his Gardeners 110-127
THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE (_continued_)
Hampton Court: the Maze and the Little Maze--Other English Mazes of the Period--Batty Langley and Stephen Switzer-- Allegorical Labyrinth of Anhalt--A Wimbledon Maze--The Mazes of Westminster and Southwark 128-136
THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE (_continued_)
Decline of the Hedge-Maze Vogue--Mazes in "Pleasure Gardens": North London, South London--Modern Mazes in Essex, Suffolk, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, and Gloucestershire--Some Modern Continental Mazes--The Case For and Against the Hedge Maze 137-146
The Stone Labyrinths of Finland--Their Local Traditions and Nomenclature--Their Antiquity--Aubrey's Acute Observation-- Some Maze-like Rock Engravings in England, Ireland, and Brittany--A Curious Discovery in Arizona and a Spanish Manuscript--American Indians and the Cretan Labyrinth-- Another Indian Pictograph--Zulu Mazes--Distribution of Labyrinth Cult 147-155
"Troy" in Labyrinth Names--An old French Reference--The Vase of Tragliatella--Virgil's Account of the Troy Game--The Delian Crane Dance--Knossos and Troy--Ariadne's Dance-- Spring-Rites--"Sympathetic Magic"--Sword and Morris Dances--Troy-dances in Mediaeval Germany and in Modern Serbia--Preservation of the English Traditions 156-163
"Fair Rosamond," Henry, and Eleanor--The Dagger or the Bowl-- History of the Legend--Accounts of Brompton and Higden-- Delone's Ballad--Rosamond in Verse and Prose--Her Epitaph-- A Question of Taste--Late Remains of the Bower--A Modern Play--Rosamond's Alleged Portrait 164-169
The Question of Definition again--Bowers and Julian-Bowers-- What was a Bower and who was Julian?--The Labyrinth and the Double Axe--Chaucer and the Maze--Metaphorical Labyrinths-- The Labyrinth in Scientific Nomenclature--The Meanings of "Maze"--Troy-towns and the New Troy 170-181