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to every department of our Art. CaveHilish, but especially 

 Raleigh, by their visits for profit as well as fame, to the Spanish 

 Settlements of America in 1580 — 88, led the way, and Avere 

 followed by Raymond and Lancaster in 1591, who laid the 

 foundation of that anomalous co-partnership of commercial 

 monarchs, the East India Company. Annual Fleets now 

 returned from the East, laden with curiosities of both the 

 Animal and Vegetable kingdoms. Though the views of men 

 were not yet liberal enough to prompt them to voyages of 

 discovery, with an unmixed desire of extending the field of 

 Science, or an enlarged wish of benefit to mankind, yet new 

 Plants in common with other hitherto strange natural products 

 attracted attention, and being imported as novelties, became by 

 degrees to be desired, and sought for as necessaries and luxu- 

 ries. The Potatoe, Tobacco, and Tea need alone be instanced. 



The following list of Authors, and of their works are the 

 sources from which I have been chiefly enabled to extract in- 

 formation on the state of Gardening, during the period we are 

 considering. 



DIDYMUS MOUNTAIN. 



1. The Gardener's Labyrinth, containing a discourse of the 

 Gardener's life, in the yearly travails to be bestowed on his 

 plot of earth for thfeuse of a Gai'den ; with instructions for the 

 choice of seeds, apt times for sowing, setting, planting, 

 and watering; and the vessels, and instruments serving to that 

 use and purpose ; wherein are set forth divers herbes, knottes, 

 and mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of Gardens; 

 also the physike of eche herbe, &c. Gathered out of the best 

 approved writers of Gardening, liusbandrie, Tiud Physike, &c, 

 1571, 4to. Black Letter. 



2. The second part of the Gardener's Labyrinth ; uttering 

 suche skilful experiences and worthy secretes, about the parti- 



