"Draper's Gardens" is an English country dance in 3/4 time and D Major. The parts are played AABB.
The tune was inserted by Henry Playford into the 13th edition of The Dancing Master (1706). It was retained in the Dancing Master through the 18th and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young). It was subsequently printed in John Walsh's Compleat Dancing Master, vol. 1 (1718) and reprinted by Walsh in his third edition (1731).
Playford also included a companion new tune in his 13th edition, "Draper's Maggot". The two tunes together are possibly connected with the Draper's Guild, then one of the most powerful companies in London. 'Draper' was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or haberdasher.
It was also printed in Barlow's The Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985).