V. 

 HERBALS, PHYSIC-GARDENS, AND BEES. 



| HE most ancient printed Herbals in 

 our language are translations from 

 the French and Latin, and are not 

 anterior to the time of Henry VIII. The 

 Great Herbal, an English version of a 

 French work, appeared in 1516, and was 

 reprinted in 1526, 1529, 1539, and 1561. 

 The Little Herbal, taken from the Latin, was 

 published in 1525, and had a second edition 

 in 1526. Besides these two guides to a 

 knowledge of the subject, we had only a 

 translation of the small herbal of Macer, of 

 which two editions appeared about the middle 

 of the sixteenth century from the press of 

 Robert Wyer, and the earlier contributions to 

 a branch of letters and science which he was 

 to make his own, of William Turner, who 



