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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 12, 1997, 
flowers themselves. This being so, a sketch of 
the history of the career of the Botanical Maga- 
zine and pi collateral Ds ons will doubtless 
st any rea aders ardeners’ 
Chronicle, for itis a part ot their history too, 
and their forefathers' history. 
But before proceeding to that history itself it 
may be well to go back a little further, and 
glance at the condition of flower gardening in 
England previous to the founding of the Botani- 
others which may be rega 
links in the history of flower gardening. 
Frower GARDENING IN ENGLAND ANTERIOR TO THE 
FOUNDATION or THE “ BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
The earliest English printed book with "v of 
plants that I have seen, and probably the first pro- 
duced, is the Grete - age of € im mprinted at 
London, in South , by me, Peter Treveris; " 
though it is stated » Tar on im authority of. 
Ames, that the t edition was printed in 1516 
'The oldest аня сору is, however, of the same 
date as that in the Kew library. This work, which 
is only mentioned on account of its historical interest, 
woodcuts, which have been rudely унеми 
жы Grete Herball is a small quarto book, and the 
principal object of it, as of all the early works on 
plants, was to set forth the сег ее of herbs . 
nal minerals. 
matters in 
sons have a chance of seeing this literary curiosity, 
I will extract some of the — relating to so 
familiar a plant as the Rosemar 
“ Rosmary is hote and drye, but the auctours tel 
not in what degre. It is a herbe that tatters in 
maner of a tree, “м it is not property called Ros- 
mary, but ros ,as it were dewe of the see, 
for comynly it poii in Pass by ye see syde, 
The floures and the leues be good in medycyne, 
And the floures ought to үе dryed а lytell in the 
TT ^ 
te Эр the good odoure, and to Ten 
and eos humours and to put them AR by subtyll 
S Vor the herte.—Agaynst dysease of the herte 
d cyon to fall in swoone, take the electuary 
dyanthos with wyne., Or elles sethe the floures of 
Rosmary wyne or rose-water, and give it to the 
pacyent. 
“For weykenesse of ye brayne.—Agaynst weyke- 
nesse of E CM and coldenesse thereof, sethe 
and lete the parat honig the 
smoke at e nose, d kepe his hee 
_ “For the throte.—The wyne din ‘Boil ary is 
soden in dryeth the moystness of the dicis yf 
e be made thereof. 
“For the stomake.—Agaynste coldenesse of the 
and to comforte dygestyon, take need or 
ы о» or mastyke is soden 
Witla MEL se а ж 1. 
зет, нб» бым 
of English Botany, was the author ofthe first original 
English work on plants,* of which Mr. Daydon Jack- 
son edited a fac-simile reprint in 1877. This i is im 
the foundation of English botanical literature. Tur- 
ner had a garden at his deanery, and he also men- 
tions his garden at Kew. 
But I must not dwell on this, as it belongs to a 
period perhaps wholly antecedent to the practice of 
flower gardening for ornamental purposes in England 
Be that as it may, before the end of the ш жч 
century several no gardens existed the 
vicinity of London, the most celebrated being that 
of the oft-cited John Gerard at Holborn. 
Meade published a catalogue of the Ланд culti- 
bee and 
pee that a great majority of the plants were culti- 
vated for their real or imaginary medicinal properties. 
Still the catalogue contains a considerable number 
of plants that could only have been cultivated = 
ornamental purposes. 
contents of Gerard's catalogue the reader is referred 
to the Gardeners’ Chronicle, n.s., ix., p. 365, March 
23, 1878. 
Flower ty it should be 19 was 
practised in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and 
Italy, long before it was in England, and cultivated 
plants were gradually introduced into this country, 
partly by Englishmen who travelled on the Conti- 
nent, and partly by refugees in fled from their 
own siege pka to escape persecu 
One of the great merits di рне ї Hortus Kew- 
immense amount of information of 
handed down t " ^ui much of which 
Мане okt 
all that is canis is that cem and such a plant was 
cultivated at a certain date, an 
author does not se ve ane date. is 
stated that the k Rose was cultivated in 
ve while in пет History of English Gar- 
e are informed that жуде who died in 
1524, introduced it from Italy. Again, it anim 
that the Auricula was cultivated in England as 
early as 1570, 1 having been brought over by arti- 
sans who were driven out of the Netherlands. 
Dipxxvs MOoUNTAINE. 
Previous to the earliest of Gerard's publications 
appeared Didymus Mountaine's Gardeners’ Labyrinth, 
the first part in 1571, and the second part, in which 
the author treats of “delectable floures," in 1577. 
There were several editions of this work, notably 
one by Dethycke in 1586. Among the “tender 
herbes and pleasant flowers" enumerated in this 
Marigold, Rose Campion, Flower Armoure, 
Columbines, Pinks, vp eme Prony, Red Lil 
bn Bachelor Button, Gilliflowers, and 
Carnat 
b» 
'TRADESCANT. 
John Tradescant, a Dutchman, who settled in this 
Watson, will be found in the forty-sixth volume of 
the Phi ransactions of t Society, 
d the museum formed the nucleus of the Ash 
m n um at Oxford. A son oft he sime name 
umbher 
olean Muse 
travelled in North America, 
of plants thence into English ee including the 
common Spiderwort (Tradescantia). 
* Libellus de Re Herbaria Novus, "ni 
t Reprinted by Mr, Daydon Jackso in 1878. 
І Shirley nae in the Journal Рі the Royal Horticultural 
Society, vii., р, 
Tusser’s Fivz ике Гоја Y (Тоо 
жэр -— t. many from quo 
ce de A 
able number o 
mon in um ry cottage gar - W. В. Hemsley. 
(To be continued.) 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY, 
TERIS DRM UM, HARTMANNI, | Jb J. 
chius Hartmanni, F. v. Mu ry d 
Ir is a great pleasure to his lovely 
gem again, thanks to the "dard n Майа of 
Sir Trevor Lawrence. What great differences are 
various individuals of the same 
species ! e in 1877 by Mr. Ball 
had only a few red spots on the кк of the ні. 
those sent by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons in 1879 
had pin spots scattered over ee pedicelled ovary 
to the base; those now sent by Sir Trevor have the 
whole side of the labellum zebroid with numerous 
red bars and spots, which look delightful. It a 
ci 
unequ ral "bh a th e leaves, as is 
distichous leaved Orchids, whereas all the leaves of T. 
вочы Australian Orchids, 
hope Sir Trevor may be a 
to give a is life to these plants, which usually come 
to their end after from one to three years 
Baron von Mueller or Mr. Fitzgerald will — 
European growers ^ to what periods of n 
required. H. С. Reh 
ВквохтА EGREGIA, N. E. Br., n. sp. 
T s a very distinct Hint valite T other in 
тарь, and different fro es contained 
in the Kew Herbarium. li is sa ры part ats 
with a thick stem, peltate rough leaves, and terminal 
corymbs of white flowers, which, being xor. in 
winter, make it a desirable addition to our stoves. 
It has been REE Mr. W. Bull, who states 
ер ог Y feet high. St em woody E 
with a smooth, pale 
a diocious species; time only фес 
the process of drying t he leaves have € 1 
ah Mia má lves in месе a very 
aces ап а emse 
А manner, N, E. Brown, Herbarium, Kot 
ппе‹ qually, 
