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they throw on garden history. Turner especially deserves a 

 place in this history, as he did a great work,not only for botany, 

 but for gardening. He had a garden of his own at Kew, and 

 mentions some of the gardens of the day in his works. He 

 was born at Morpeth, in Northumberland, between 1510-15. 

 He studied in Cambridge, where he was the friend of Latimer 

 and Ridley. Turner was a Reformer, and twice his books were 

 prohibited and condemned to destruction. He travelled in 

 Italy, Germany, and Holland, and received the degree of 

 Doctor of Medicine in Italy. On his return to England, he 

 held several Church preferments. He was Dean of Wells, but 

 he was deprived of his Deanery, and exiled in Mary's reign, 

 though he was reinstated, for a time, on the accession of 

 Elizabeth, and he died on July 7th, 1568. His Libellus de 

 Re Herbaria was printed in 1538, and dedicated to the King. 

 The Names of Herbes, in 1548, was dedicated to his patron, 

 the Protector Somerset, from whose house at Syon the preface 

 is dated. Syon had been granted to Somerset on the sup- 

 pression of the Bridgittines in 1539. Throughout the work 

 there are frequent references to the garden there. Turner's 

 Herbal was printed in 1551, and the " seconde parte " of the 

 Herbal in 1562. 



Thomas Tusser, the author of a well-known work on hus- 

 bandry, is an attractive personality, good, practical, and simple- 

 minded. He was born about 1523-25 at Rivenhall, in Essex. 

 In his early years he was trained as a singer, and sang in the 

 choir at St. Paul's. He was afterwards under Nicholas Udall, 

 at Eton, and in 1543 went to Cambridge, and remained there 

 until he came to Court as a retainer of Lord Paget. After 

 ten years of Court life he retired to a farm in Cattiwade, in 

 the parish of Brantham, Suffolk, on the borders of Essex. It 

 was there that he composed his poem, One Hundred Pointes 

 of Good Husbandrie, which appeared in 1557. He soon after 

 left that farm, and was moving about for some years, going to 

 Ipswich, West Dereham in Norfolk, Norwich, Fairstead in 

 Essex, London, and Cambridge, and died in London in 1580. 

 During these years he greatly enlarged his book, and in 1573 it 

 reappeared complete as Five Hundred Pointes of Good Hus- 

 bandrie. In this poem he gives useful hints for the cultivation 



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