IV. 



THE FRENCH AND DUTCH SCHOOLS EVELYN 

 AND THE "FRENCH GARDENER" His 

 " SYLVA " JOHN WORLIDGE GARDEN- 

 ING IN SCOTLAND. 



[HE second part of the French Gar- 

 dener (1675) deals with a class 

 of vegetable-fruits which had be- 

 come in the seventeenth century common 

 enough, but of which we hear very little in 

 more ancient records melons, cucumbers, 

 gourds ; and a section is devoted to the 

 artichoke and asparagus. Of melons and 

 gourds I trace no cognisance in the technical 

 treatises of the time ; but they are recited, 

 with leeks, onions, and garlic, in Newbery's 

 Dives Pragmaticus (1563). 



Vast progress had now been made in the 

 development of the kitchen-garden and in 



