The profitable arte of gardening : to which is added much necessarie matter, and a number of secrets, with the phisicke helps belonging to each hearbe, and that easily prepared : to this is annexed two proper treatises, the one entituled, The meruailous gouernment, propertie, and benefite of bees, with the rare secretes of the honnie and waxe ; and the other, The yerely coniectures meete for husbandmen ; to these is likewise added a Treatise of the arte of graffing and planting of trees
A 1593 London gardening manual by Thomas Hill, printed by Edward Allde, covering gardening, bees, grafting and husbandry for practical growers. Its pictures are small woodcut pieces: a square ornamented frame enclosing a circular hedge maze with a central figure, and a strip of interlaced ornamental scrollwork, both usable as period borders, labyrinth motifs or decorative dividers.
