3O Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



prospers without much sunshine, whereas 

 his scholiast had in his mind probably a 

 cultivated variety. 



Austen, when he penned these strictures on 

 Bacon, was already favourably known by his 

 Treatise on Fruit- Trees (4, 1653). 



Richard Brathwaite, a contemporary of 

 Bacon, makes "The Garden" a short 

 section in his tract on the management of 

 an earl's household. Among the vegetables 

 he quotes the cucumber. But he recom- 

 mends fair bowling-alleys, well-banked, as a 

 desirable feature in a nobleman's pleasure- 

 grounds, and he intimates that, if well kept, 

 they are profitable to the gardeners they 

 received gratuities, that is to say, from 

 visitors to the master. 



The name of Evelyn is customarily 

 associated with his learned book on 

 Forestry (1664) ; but a few years prior to 

 that date he was induced by his friend 

 Thomas Henshaw to put into an English 

 dress a work called The French Gardener. 

 The first edition was ready in 1658, and a 

 third was demanded in 1675. The second I 



