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described continental crops and farming methods. 

 Leonard Mascal, who is asserted to have intro- 

 duced pippin apples and carp, and who had 

 travelled on the Continent, published^ "A Booke 

 of the Arte and manner, how to plant and graffe 

 all sortes of Trees by one of the Abbey of St. 

 Vincent in France, with an addition of certain 

 Dutch practices," in 1572, "The Husbandrie, 

 ordering and Government of Poultrie," in 1581, 

 and "The Government of Cattel," in 1596, 

 Heresbachius 's " Foure Books of Husbandry, 

 Newely Englished, and increased by Barnabe 

 Googe," was published in 1577 ; Sir Hugh Plat's 

 " Jewel House of Art and Nature," in which a 

 great knowledge of the Low Countries is shown, 

 was published in 1594; Bishop Dubravius's (of 

 Olmutz) " New Booke of Good Husbandry," was 

 published in English in 1599; Sir Cornelius 

 Vermuiden, a Dutchman, published his " Dis- 

 courses touching the Drayning of the Great 

 Fenns," in 1642 ; and Hartlib published Sir 

 Richard Weston's " Discourse of Husbandry used 

 in Brabant and Flanders," in 1645, " The Legacy ; 

 or, an Enlargement of the Discourse," in 1651, 

 and the " Appendix to the Legacy," in the same 

 year. 



Thus, through books and returning soldiers 

 and travellers, a knowledge of the agriculture of 

 the Low Countries was filtering through to English 

 » McDonald's " Agricultural Writers," 1908, p. 42. 



