194 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



The seedes are best preserv'd in papers : their names written 

 on them and put in a box. The Nutts in Barills of dry sand : 

 each kind wrap'^ in papers written on. 



The trees in Barills their rootes wraped about mosse : The 

 smaller the plants and trees are, the better ; or they will do well 

 packed up in matts ; but the Barill is best, & a small vessell 

 will containe enough of all kinds labells of paper tyed to euery 

 sort with y"^ name : 



I suppose most of those sen'd to be plants of Virginia May 

 grow also in N — England : 



S', y"^ greate civilitie, & generous offer, makes me presume 

 (thro Mr. Secretary Pepys's cover & reconiendation) to burden 

 you with this catalogue from 



S' 



Y'' most humble 



Sev' J. Evelyn. 

 Saye Court neer Deptford, 

 I Sep^ —86. 



Memd"" a Copie hereof was putt into y*^ 

 hand of Cap' Nicholson. 



Sept'-. 3d _86. 



In 1664 Evelyn published his Kalendariiini Hortensc, or 

 Gardener'' s Almanac, a most popular work, which went through 

 a number of editions, and appeared with the last corrected 

 edition of the Silva, in 1705, and Evelyn died at the end of 

 the same year. The flowers to be planted and the business 

 to be done in each month is carefully gone through. He 

 gives also a list of the comparative tenderness of flowers, 

 and divides them into three classes, those " least patient of 

 cold," "to be first set into the conservatory or otherwise 

 defended," those " enduring second degree of cold," and 

 accordingly "to be secured in the conservatory," class iii. 

 " not perishing but in excessive colds to be last set in 

 or protected under matrasses or slighter coverings." His 

 classifications of some of the plants are rather singular. The 

 first begins well with Acacia Aegyptiaca (= ^. vera), Aloe 

 American (= Aorave americana), then Amaranthus tricolor, 



