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the trees thirteen feet high, and growing, not 

 in pots, but out of the ground. They yielded 

 in the season when Gibson wrote ten thousand 

 oranges. 1 



I have stated that the old grammarian, 

 Johannes de Garlandia, has furnished us 

 with a most interesting and precious account 

 of the contents of his garden at Paris, simply 

 by way of philological illustration. This was 

 in the closing years of the thirteenth century. 

 In our own country we have nothing of the 

 kind so early; but in 1596 and 1599 John 

 Gerarde printed a catalogue of the trees and 

 plants growing in his grounds in Holborn. 

 The latter is a small, thin folio volume, and 

 has been lately republished in facsimile. 



At a later period these descriptive lists 

 became common ; but our literature does 

 not possess many of them till we come 

 down to comparatively recent times. 



Gerarde's was the prototype. He styles 

 himself on the title-page, " Surgeon and 

 Citizen of London." 



1 See further particulars in the Appendix ; where 

 Gibson's tract is republished entire. 



