166 A. HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



botanical researches than gardening, but by studying the early 

 Herbals, we gain much knowledge from the side lights they 

 throw on garden history. Turner especially deserves a place 

 in this history, as he did a great work not only for botany, 

 but for gardening. He had. a garden of his own at Kew, and 

 mentions some of the gardens of the day in his works. He 

 was born at Morpeth, in Northumberland, between 1510-15. 

 He studied in Cambridge, where he was the friend of Latimer 

 and Ridley. Turner was a Reformer, and twice his books were 

 prohibited and condemned to destruction. He travelled in 

 Italy, Germany, and Holland, and received the degree of 

 Doctor of Medicine in Italy. On his return to England, he 

 held several church preferments. He was Dean of Wells, but 

 he was deprived of his Deanery, and exiled, in Mary's reign, 

 though he was reinstated, for a time, on the accession of 

 Elizabeth, and he died on July 7th, 1568. His Libellus dc 

 Re Herbaria was printed in 1538, and dedicated to the king. 

 The " Names of Herbes," in 1548, was dedicated to his patron, 

 the Protector Somerset, from whose house at Syon the preface is 

 dated. Syon had been granted to Somerset on the suppression 

 of the Bridgittines in 1539. Throughout the work there are 

 frequent references to the garden there. Turner's Herbal 

 was printed in 1551, and the " seconde parte " of the Herbal 

 in 1562. 



Thomas Tusser was the author of a well-known work on 

 husbandry. He was born about 1523-5, at Rivenhall, in Essex. 

 In his early years he was trained as a singer, and sang in the 

 choir at St. Paul's. He was afterwards under Nicholas Udall, 

 at Eton, and in 1543 went to Cambridge, and remained there 

 until he came to Court as a retainer of Lord Paget. After 

 ten years of Court life, he retired to a farm in Cattiwade, in 

 the parish of Brantham, Suffolk, on the borders of Essex. It 

 was there that he composed his poem, One hundred Pointcs 

 of Good Husbandrie, which appeared in 1557. He soon after 

 left that farm, and was moving about for some years going to 

 Ipswich, West Dereham in Norfolk, Norwich, Fairstead in 

 Essex, London and Cambridge ; and died in London in 1580. 

 He enlarged on the first book, and in 1573 the first edition of 





