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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



apothecary to James I, and in the course of a life of travel he collected many 

 rare plants at his gardens in Long Acre. He divides the country gentleman's 

 garden into four separate parts, namely that of pleasant and delightful 

 flowers, of kitchen herbs and roots, of simples, and of fruit trees. He is 

 the first writer who appears to have had regard for the flower garden as a 



THE BOTANIC GARDEN, OXFORD, 1633, FROM AN ENGRAVING OF I733. 



pleasaunce and not only for the growth of medicinal plants, and he gives 

 many designs for setting out parterres. 



In the reign of Charles I the first Botanical Garden in England was 

 laid out from the designs of Inigo Jones in 1632 at Oxford, just one hundred 

 years after the establishment of that at Padua. The Oxford Garden 

 was founded by Henry, Earl of Danby, who gave five acres of land 



