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description. That these plants were grown in enclosures 

 is evident from the derivation of the words wyrt-tun 

 and wyrt-geard applied to what might perhaps be 

 dignified as a garden. Little more of these gardens 

 is known, however, than the names of the plants to be 

 gleaned from early herbaries. A few of these names 

 are in pure Anglo-Saxon, but the majority are of Latin 

 origin. The " Herbarium " of Apuleius, written in the 

 fourth century, was translated into Anglo-Saxon, and 

 was probably considered as an authority about plant-lore. 

 Anglo-Saxon Among vegetables the best known seems to have 

 vegetables, been the leek, as an enclosure for pot-herbs came to 

 be ordinarily called the leac-tun, and a kitchen gardener 

 as the leac weard or leek keeper. The other alliaceous 

 plants, we are told, were considered as so many varieties 

 of leek and were designated by such names as eune-leak 

 or yune-leac, supposed to be the onion, and gar-leac 

 for garlic. Bean and cress are also Anglo-Saxon 

 words, but cabbage, peas, turnip, radish, parsley, mint, 

 sage, rue, and other herbs, although in use, passed by 

 Latin names. 



Long lists of flowering plants might be appended 

 from Anglo-Saxon writings. But as they are difficult 

 to identify, and probably many of them grew only wild 

 or were prized merely for medicinal qualities, they may 

 have had no connection with a garden and do not 

 help us to imagine its appearance. For the cultivated 



Flowering 

 plants. 



