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Title: Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Matthews, William Henry, 1882-
Subjects: Labyrinths
Publisher: London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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above all other herbs commend unto you, and being asmall, low, or dwarfe kind, is called French or DutchBoxe. This plant, he says, serveth very well to set outany knot or border out any beds, for besides that it isever greene, it being reasonable thicke set, will easily becut and formed into any fashion one will, according tothe nature thereof, which is to grow very slowly, and willnot in a long time rise to be of any height, but shootingforth many small branches from the roote, will grow verythicke and yet not require so great tending, nor so muchperish as any of the former . . ., and so on, in typicallabyrinthine prose. The use of dwarf box in this way wasnot, of course, a novelty in Parkinsons time. In facl: itwas used by the Romans to border their paths and theflower-beds of that little garden in front of the porticoeswhich went by the name of the xystus. In the sixteenth century, however, the planting ofdwarf shrubs and herbs in long narrow beds twisted intovarious complicated fi

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