Evolution of Horticulture 



love for horticulture, corresponding large- 

 ly with those interested in the subject, 

 and making careful experiments in his 

 garden in St. Martin's Lane, London. 

 Among other works, he published : A 

 short Instruction very profitable and 

 necessary, for all those that delight in 

 Gardening, to know the time and season 

 when it is good to sow and replant 

 all manner of seeds. Whereunto is an- 

 nexed, divers plots both for planting and 

 graffing for the better ease of the Gar- 

 dener, 1592. The Paradise of Flora, 1600. 

 The Garden of Eden, or an accurate 

 description of all Flowers and Fruits now 

 growing in England, with particular 

 rules how to advance their nature and 

 growth, as well in seeds and hearbes, as 

 the secret ordering of Trees and Plants. 



Platt's death occurred in the early part 

 of the seventeenth century. 



CONRAD HERESBACH was born in 1508. 



Among other works, his Rei Rusticez 



libri quatuor was first published in 1570. 



It was afterwards translated and published 



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