Evolution of Horticulture 



added the art of propagating Plants, with 

 the true ordering of all manner of Fruits > 

 in their gathering, carrying home, and 

 preservation. I^ondon, 1615. Gardener's 

 Kitchen Garden, 1599. The Fruiterer's 

 Secrets, 1604. 



GERVASE MARKHAM was born about the 

 middle of the sixteenth century, in Not- 

 tinghamshire. He wrote several volumes, 

 and among these were the following : 

 The English Husbandman . . . Together 

 with the Art of Planting, Grafting, and 

 Gardening, 1613. The Country House- 

 wife's Garden, 1623. 



JOHN PARKINSON was born in 1567, and 

 was at first an apothecary, but became a 

 noted horticulturist and botanist. He 

 was created Royal Herbalist by Charles 

 I. His first publication, which was 

 dedicated to the Queen, was Paradisus 

 terestris, or a garden of all sorts of 

 pleasant flowers which our English ayre 

 will permitt to be noursed up, with a 

 kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, 

 rooles y and fruites for meate or sause, 

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