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Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie was published. Tusser 

 was good, practical, and simple-minded. In the poem he 

 gives useful hints for the cultivation of a garden, as he 

 touches on gardening among the pointes of husbandrie for 

 each month. The other " pointes " include all departments of 

 farming ; besides advice about housekeeping ; how to keep 

 Christmas, and how to treat wife, children, servants, and 

 friends ; and his counsel on this last point should hold good 

 at the present day, though few would wish to follow all his 

 injunctions on husbandry : 



" Good friend and good neighbour that fellowlie gest 

 With hartilie welcome, should have of the best." 



William Bulleyn, a learned physician, wrote a book entitled 

 The Government of Healthe (1558). Although devoted to the 

 herbs used in medicine, some curious information on gardening 

 can be gleaned from it. 



The history of the Herbals of this period is rather involved, 

 as they were so much copied one from another, and the same 

 plates were used in several works. The authors of every country 

 borrowed freely from ancient writers, especially Dioscorides 

 and Columella. The former was translated into Italian, and 

 published with many additions in 1544, by Mattioli, the learned 

 Italian botanist and physician. Dodoens, another of the great 

 botanists of the sixteenth century, who copied much from 

 Dioscorides, was born at Mechlin in 1517. He published at 

 Antwerp in 1554, A History of Plants, written in Dutch, 

 which was translated into French by Clusius (Charles de 

 1'Excluse), and printed at Antwerp in 1557. Henry Lyte 

 translated the work into English from the French of Clusius, 

 and Lyte's version was printed at Antwerp in 1578, the same 

 woodcuts being used for the work in all the three languages. 

 Each of these books went through several editions. Meanwhile, 

 Dodoens greatly enlarged his original, and embodied it in a 

 new work, Stirpium Historiae, Pemptades sex : in thirty books. 

 This great Herbal was translated into English by Dr. Priest, 

 who died before he could publish his translation. 



Gerard's Herbal, 1597, is founded entirely on that of 

 Dodoens, parts of it being exact translations. Gerard professes 



