2O Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



angling, set forth his gardening manual under 

 this title : A Booke of the Arte and Maner 

 howe to plant and graffe all sortes of trees, 

 howe to set stones, and sowe Pepines to make 

 wylde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and 

 medicines. With divers other new practises, 

 with an Addition in the ende of this Booke, 

 of certaine Dutch practises. 



This production owes its chief value to 

 the fact that it is seemingly the parent 

 attempt to enlarge the still narrow enough 

 experience of our native gardeners by en- 

 abling them to see in print, if not in actual 

 working, what was being done in the same di- 

 rection abroad, and not only in France, with 

 which the English had always had tolerably 

 close relations, but in the Netherlands, where 

 the science of horticulture was receiving 

 greater attention than at any former period. 



But it does not appear that the Dutch 

 ideas met at this time with much favour at 

 our hands. Those who did not admire 

 French models for laying out their grounds 

 had recourse to the Italian ; and there were 

 some who adopted a sort of compound of 



