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CHAPTER III 



Turner's Herbal and the Influence of the Foreign Herbalists . 75 

 William Turner — Cambridge with Nicholas Ridley — Travels abroad — 

 Bologna — Luca Ghini — Conrad Gesner — Cologne — Appointed chaplain 

 and physician to the Duke of Somerset — His early writings on herbs — 

 Turner's Herbal — Illustrations — Characteristics of the book — Descrip- 

 tions of herbs — North-countrj'- lore — Old country customs — Influence 

 of the foreign herbalists on the later English herbals — Leonhard Fuchs — 

 Rembert Dodoens — Charles de I'Escluse — Matthias de I'Obel — Lyte's 

 translation of Dodoens' Cruidtboeck — Illustrations — Rani's little Dodoen. 



CHAPTER IV 

 Gerard's Herbal .......... q8 



Popularity of Gerard's Herbal — Its charm — Gerard's boyhood — Later 

 life — His garden in Holborn — Friendship with Jean Robin, keeper of the 

 royal gardens in Paris — Origin of Gerard's Herbal — Illustrations — Old 

 behefs in the effects of herbs on the heart and mind — Use of herbs as 

 amulets — Other folk lore — Myth of the barnacle geese — Origin and 

 history of the myth — Old English names of plants — Wild flower life of 

 London in Elizabeth's day — " Master Tuggie's " garden in W^est- 

 minster — Shakespeare and Gerard. 



CHAPTER V 



Herbals of the New World 120 



Herbals written in connection with the colonisation of America by the 

 Spaniards and English — Early records of the plant lore of the Red 

 Indians — English weeds introduced into America and first gardens in 

 New England — Joyfull Newes from out of the newe founde worlde — 

 Gums used by the Red Indians — " Mechoacan " — " The hearbe tabaco " 

 — First account and illustration of this plant — Its uses by the Red 

 Indians in their religious ceremonies and as a wound-herb — Origin of the 

 name " Nicotiana " — Sassafras — Use by the Spanish soldiers — Root 

 used as a pomander in Europe in time of plague — New Ene^land's 

 Rarities discovered — Weeds introduced into America with the first 

 Colonists — First list of English plants grown in New England gardens — 

 The American Physitian — The " Maucaw " tree — Use of the seed 

 by the Red Indians — Cacao and the making of chocolate — Cacao 

 kernels used as tokens — James Petiver — The South-Sea Herbal. 



CHAPTER VI 

 John Parkinson, the Last of the Great English Herbalists . 142 



John Parkinson — The Paradisus — Myth of the vegetable lamb — 

 Origin of the myth — Characteristics of the book — An Elizabethan 

 flower-garden — Lilies, anemones, gilliflowers, cucko-flowers, etc. — 



