344 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAXD. 



(1650?) PETER STENT. Book of Flowers, Fruits, Beasts, Birds, 

 and Flies . . 4to. A set of engravings * 



Ascribed by Hazlitt conjecturally to 1660, but it must have pre- 

 ceded the following. Stent and Simpson were two engravers in 

 London about or before the middle of the seventeenth century. 



1650 WILLIAM SIMPSON. The Second Booke of flowers, fruicts, 

 beastes, birds, and flies exactly drawne, etc. London, 

 1650. 4to. 



another issue. 1661. 4to. 



WILLIAM How. Phytologia Britannica, natales exhibens 

 Indigenarum Stirpium sponte emergentium 

 Londini, 1650. 8vo. 



1652 NICHOLAS CULPEPPER. The English Physitian, or an Astro- 



logico-Physical Discourse of the vulgar Herbs of this 

 Nation. London, Peter Cole, 1652. Folio * 



- another issue. 1652, without publisher's name. I2mo.* 



This is the work popularly known as Culpepper's Herbal. An 



edition said to be enlarged was printed in 1654, and was the parent 



of all succeeding issues which have appeared frequently down to 



the present century. 



1653 A BOOK OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS shewing the nature and 



use of them . . London, 1653 



RALPH AUSTEN. A Treatise of Fruit Trees . . Oxford, 1653. 

 4to. 



second edition, with the addition of many new 

 experiments. Oxford, 1657. 4to. 



- (another edition, to which are added) Observa- 

 tions upon Sir Francis Bacon's Nat. Hist., also 

 directions for planting wood. Oxford, 1665. 4to. 



Observations upon some part of Sir F. Bacon's 



Naturall History as it concerns fruit trees, fruits, 

 and flowers. Oxford, 1658. 4to. 



This was the first edition of the " Observations," which were 

 afterwards annexed as a second part to the 1665 edition of the 

 "Treatise." 



