Herbals, Physic-Gardens, and Bees. 49 



there is an interesting account in Kennet's 

 Parochial Antiquities, under " Chilton," had 

 a physic-garden attached to his seat at 

 Hackney, the earliest thing of the kind in 

 England, though of long standing in Italy 

 and elsewhere on the Continent. It was 

 under the superintendence of Matthew de 

 1'Obel, an apothecary, who wrote one of the 

 earliest books on tobacco. 1 



Lord Zouch, whose other residence at 

 Bramshill, in Hampshire (of which there is 

 a view in Nash's Mansions of the Olden 

 Time), is commemorated by Browne in the 

 dedication of his Shepherd's Pipe (1614) to 

 that nobleman, had also ornamental and 

 fruit gardens at his place near London ; and y 

 Sir Hugh Platt, in his Garden of Eden 

 (1653), quoted by Lysons, states that he 

 removed apple and damson trees of thirty 

 years' growth with success. 



The second institution of this kind was 



1 In the Antiquary for February, 1885, I have 

 drawn attention to the physic -garden founded at 

 Venice in 1334 by the surgeon Gualtieri, the most 

 ancient in Europe. 



