38 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



plantations and woods, but to the proper 

 mode of propagating and pruning them, and 

 of course the writer introduces anecdotes 

 and touches which impart a zest and price 

 to the volume. He could hardly go into 

 print without telling us something new and 

 useful ; and I must particularly commend to 

 attention the account of ancient and cele- 

 brated trees, contributed to his pages by 

 the Auditor of his friend, Henry Howard of 

 Norfolk. 



The Kalendarium Hortense, which (after 

 Bacon's essay) was the precursor of all other 

 experiments of the same nature, proved more 

 popular and saleable than the Sylva itself, 

 and passed through several editions. To the 

 ninth he added a sort of supplementary 

 or companion volume, called Acetaria, a 

 Discourse of Sallets, in which he included 

 many articles which are no longer thought 

 to fall within that category, such as spinach, 

 asparagus, melons, dandelion, hops, and a 

 number more. It was to some of the later 

 impressions of the Calendar that Cowley ap- 

 pended his poem of the Garden^ with a 



