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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1888. 



EARLY ENGLISH GARDENING. 

 III. 



GERARD.— The year 1597 is one of the most 

 distinct landmarks in the history of garden- 

 ing, for, during its course, Gerard's great work, the 

 Herbal or General History of Plants, appeared. 

 When a theory or a practice is in its infancy, the 

 literature thereof partakes of a tentative or 

 even fragmentary character, and perhaps the 

 only exception to this general rule may be cited 

 in the case cf Gerard's Herbal. This, however, 

 entirely depends upon whether we regard it in the 

 light of a botanical or of a horticultural treatise. 

 The Herbal is divided into three parts or books, 

 the first, to p. 176, treating of grasses, grain, 

 rushes, reeds, Flags, and bulbous-rooted plants; 

 the second, up to page 1076, of herbs used for 

 food, medicine, or ornament , and the third dealt 

 with trees, shrubs, fruits, rosins, gums, Roses, 

 Heaths, Mosses, Mushrooms, and sea plants. 

 There are, respectively, 106. 511, and 167 chap- 

 ters in the three books. There are about 2000 

 illustrations, each of which is about 3| inches by 

 2 inches, and as every one of these would now 

 cost about half-a-guinea a-piece, it will be seen, 

 leaving printing and paper entirely out of the 

 question, that the undertaking can only be de- 

 scribed by the one word, vast. The prefatory 

 remarks are dated "from my house at Holbourne 

 within the suburbs of London, this 1st of 

 December, 1597." From the catalogue (1596) 

 of the trees and plants growing in his own 

 garden, in Holborn — and of which a fac simile 

 reprint has been issued by Mr. B. D. Jackson — 

 we may fairly assume that the father of Eng- 

 lish gardening had one of the largest physic 

 gardens in the country. Holborn is anything 

 but suggestive of gardens at the present time, 

 nor, indeed, has it been for the past century. 

 Not the remotest trace of the famous garden now 

 exists, and nothing even to suggest the bare 

 possibility, except the seedy shabby-gentility of 

 Red Lion Square. "Talke of perfect happi- 

 nesse," exclaims the famous doctor-surgeon, " or 

 pleasure, and what place is so fit for that, as the 

 garden place where Adam was set, to be the 



