96 A HISTORY OF GARDEXING IN ENGLAND. 



While such progress was being made in the decoration and 

 laying-out of the flower-garden, the fruit and kitchen-gardens 

 were not altogether neglected. Besides such fruits as were 

 already in common use, others were introduced, and those 

 indigenous in the country, were improved. The strawberry was 

 largely planted, and carefully cultivated : — 



" If frost do continue take this for a lawe 



The strawberies look to be covered with strawc 

 Laid overly trim, upon crotchis and bows 

 And after uncovered as weather allows." * 



From the following verse, in September's husbandrie, it is clear 

 where the strawberry plants were procured : — 



" Wife unto thy garden and set me a plot 

 With stravvbery rootes of the best to be got. 

 Such growing abroade, among thornes in the wood 

 Wei chosen and picked proove excellent good." 



It was not only for humble folk that wild strawberry roots were 

 gathered, for, in the oft-quoted Hampton Court Accounts, we 

 find several entries of money paid for strawberry roots, brought 

 from the woods for the King's garden. t 



The raspberry had until this period been more or less 

 ignored, and even now seems not to have been very generally 

 grown. Turner, in 1548, says of " Rubus ideus in Englishe 

 raspeses or hyndberies .... growe most plentuously in the 

 woddes in east Freseland .... they growc also in certayne 

 gardincs of Englande." He also says of them, " The taste of 

 it is soure." The gooseberry, which does not appear in earlier 

 gardens, was now grown. It was planted in some of Henry 

 the Eighth's gardens in 1516. Turner calls it "a groser bushe, 

 a goosebery bushe," and says of it " It groweth only that I 

 have sene in England, in gardines, but I have sene it in Germany 



* Tusser, Five Hundred Poiiites of Good Husbandrie. 



f " Emptions of strowbery roots violettes and primerose roots for the 

 new garden — also paid to Ales Brewer and Margaret Rogers for gathering 

 of 34 bushels of strowberry roots, primerose and violettes at 3d. the bushel, 

 Ss. 6d. Item to Matthew Garrett of Kyngston for setting of the said root€S and 

 Howers by the space of 20 days at 3d. the day, 5s." 



