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Greek tunge, certayne yeeres before him : Lastly by sight unto 

 delectation, and jucunditie through the fragrancie of smell : but 

 most of all, that the same may furnishe the owners, and husbande 

 mans table, with sundry seemely and dayntie dishes, to him of 

 small coste. The Garden grounde (if the same may be) ought 

 rather to be placed neere hande, whereby the owner or Gardener 

 may with more ease be partaker of such commodities growing in 

 the garden, and bothe oftner resorte and use his diHgence in the 

 same : So that this is the whole care and duetie required of every 

 owner and Gardener in their plot of ground. — The Gardener's 

 Labyrt?tth. a.d. 1577. 



— "AA/Vj— 



LEONARD C/erk of Kitchen in house of Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury: author of 

 MASCHAL < ^ Booke of the Arte and manerhowe to plant and graffe all sortes of Trees^^ 

 {d. 1589). 1572; 'On the Government of Cattle'' {luith portrait), 1596, a later edition 



(1680) being called " The Countryman's Jewel.'' 



WILLIAM Writer on gardenijig, whose book 'A new Orchard and Garden,'' he says 

 LAWSON ^as the result of df% years' experience. It appeared in 1618, and earned hiju 

 c. 1570-1618). ^^^ ^^^j^^ ^jr i fji^ j^aac Walton of Gardeners.' 



THE very works of, and in an Orchard and Garden, are better 

 than the ease and rest of and from other laboures. When 

 God had made man after his owne Image, in a perfect state, 

 and would have him to represent himselfe in authoritie, tran- 

 quihtie, and pleasure upon the Earth, He placed him in Paradise. 

 What was Paradise 2 But a Garden and Orchard of trees and 

 hearbs, full of all pleasure? and nothing there but delights. 

 The gods of the Earth, resembling the great God of heaven in 

 authoritie. Majestic, and abundance of all things, wherein is 

 their most delight ? And whether doe they withdraw themselves 

 from the troublesome affayres of their estate, being tyred with 

 the hearing and judging of litigious Controversies? choked (as 

 it were), with the close ayres of their sumptuous buildings, their 

 stomacks cloyed with varietie of Banquets, their eares filled and 

 over-burthened with tedious discoursings. Whither? but into 



