540 LITERATURE OF GARDENING. 



and the printed copy by a tract on the planting and graft- 

 ing of trees, adapted and translated from Palladius.* 



Dr Bulleyn (1500-1576) wrote on gardening, and tells 

 us that we had excellent apples, pears, plums, and cherries 

 in his time, although it was customary to import them from 

 France and Holland. 



Thomas Tusser (1515-1580) wrote "One Hundred 

 Points of Good Husbandry," a book which has gone 

 through many editions. This work is principally on 

 agriculture, but he gives lists of forty-two sorts of seeds 

 and herbs for the kitchen, twenty-two sorts of herbs and 

 roots for salads and sauce, eleven herbs and roots to boil 

 or to butter, twenty-one stewing herbs, forty herbs, 

 branches, and flowers for windows and pots, seventeen 

 herbs to distil in summer, and twenty-five herbs to grow 

 in the garden for physic. He also gives a list of twenty- 

 seven sorts of fruit trees to be set or removed. The book 

 is written in verse, and is full of wise precepts on rural 

 affairs in general. 



In "Arnold's Chronicle" (1521) is a chapter on the 

 "Crafte of graffynge and plantynge and alterynge of 

 frutys." Sir Anthony Fitzherbert published "The Book 

 of Husbandry " in 1532. The first part of Turner's " New 

 Herbal" was published in 1551, but is botanical rather 

 than horticultural. 



Thomas Hyll published " The Profitable Art of Gar- 

 dening" in 1563, and there are other editions of this book 

 about the same date. 



Didymus Mountain published the first part of the 

 "Gardeners' Labyrinth" in 1571. He does not claim 

 originality. As a compilation it is valuable, bringing 

 together scattered fragments on practical gardening. A 



* The earliest MSS. on gardening which I have seen appear to me copies 

 or translations of Latin authors, and abound in superstitious details. Later 

 writings too are repetitions of previous authors borrowed without acknowledg- 

 ment, a practice which presumably did not begin then and certainly has not 

 ended now. 



