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which are woonte to growe in whotter soyles ; but yt is well known 

 that nowe there are beeches eche where in the londe. Thei 

 plante vines in their gardins, rather for covert and commoditee 

 of shaddowe then for the fruite, for the grape seldom commeth 

 to ripenes excepte an hotte summer ensewe.— £!ng/isk History^ 

 edited by Sir Henry Ellis, for Camden Society. 



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Son of Henri Estienne ; Doctor of Medicine, Royal Printer and author ^CHARLES 

 seve7'al treatises on Medicine, Natural History, and Agriculture — ^ De re ESTIENNE 

 Hortensi Libelhis,' 1545, on the Antiquities of Gardening. (STEPHENS) 



Collaborated with Jean Liebault, Medicin {d. 1596), to produce ^ La Maison U 504-1 5o4)- 

 Rustiqne' {Prcedium Rusticum), translated into English by R. Stirflet (1600), 

 and reprinted with additions frotn Olivier de Serrcs, Vinet and others, by 

 Gervase Alarkhatn in 16 16. 



THE most pleasant and Delectable thing for recreation belong- Surjlet's 

 ing unto our French Fermes, is our Flower Gardens, as well translation. 

 in respect that it serveth for the chiefe Lord, whose the inheritance 

 is, to solace himselfe therein, as also in respect of their service, for 

 to set Bee-hives in. It is a commendable and seemely thing to 

 behold out at a window manie acres of ground well tilled and 

 husbanded, whether it be a Medow, a Plot for planting of Willowes, 

 or arable ground, as we have stood upon heretofore : but yet it is 

 much more to behold faire and comely Proportions, handsome and 

 pleasant Arbors, and, as it were. Closets, delightfuU borders of 

 Lavender, Rosemarie, Boxe, and other such like : to heare the 

 ravishing musicke of an infinite number of pretie small Birds, 

 which continually, day and night, doe chatter, and chant their 

 proper and naturall branch-songs upon the Hedges and Trees of 

 the Garden ; and to smell so sweet a Nose-gay so neere at hand ; 

 seeing that this so fragrant a smell cannot but refresh the Lord of 

 the Farme exceedingly, when going out of his bed-chamber in the 

 morning after the Sunne-rise, and whiles as yet the cleare and 

 pearle-like dew doth pearche unto the grasse, he giveth himself 

 to heare the melodious musicke of the Bees; which busying 

 themselves in gathering of the same, doe also fill the ayre with 



