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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



belonged to some monastic order of about the middle of the 

 fifteenth century. 



As early as the year 1500 there was a " Boke of Husbandry " 

 actually printed in London by Wynken de Worde. It is a quarto 

 of twelve pages only. It commences, " Here begyneth a Treatyse 

 of Husbandry, which Mayster Groshede, sometyme Bisshop of 

 Lyncoln, made and translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe, 

 whiche teacheth all maner of men to governe theyre Londes, 

 Tenements, and Demenes ordinately." It concludes with, " Here 

 endeth the Boke of Husbandry and of Plantynge and Graffynge 

 of Trees and Vynes." Although not printed until the year 1500 

 this work had been written or translated by Grossheade prior to 

 1250. 



List of Principal Authors and Printed Works on Gardening. 

 1500 to 1860. 



1705. Bradley, Kensington ; Fair- 

 . child, Hoxton. 



1714. John Lawrence. 



1715. Stephen Switzer. 

 1724. Phillip Miller. 

 1754. Justice. 

 1763. Prof. Martyn. 

 1767. John Abercrombie. 

 1777. C. Loddiges. Great Nursery, 



Hackney. 

 1787. William Curtis, Garden Bota- 

 nist. Bot. Mag. 

 1790. Pulteney. Sketches, etc. 

 1797. T. A. Knight, F.E.S. 



1803. J. C. Loudon. 



1804. Hort. Soc. Established. 

 1812. T. Hogg. Florists' Flowers. 

 1818. Sweet Ger. Cist. Fl. Gard. 



1820. John Lindley, F.E.S. 



1821. Dean Herbert. 

 1825. Bn. Maund. Bot. Garden. 

 1828. Felton, Portraits, Authors, 



E. G. 



1831. Sir Joseph Paxton. 

 1850. Thos. Moore, Chelsea. 

 1859. Charles Darwin. 



1500. Boke of Husbandrie. W. de 

 Worde. 



1516. The Great Herball. French. 

 1521. Arnold's Chronicles. 

 1530. Macer-Linacre. Damask 

 Kose. 



1532. Fitzherbert's Husbandry. 

 1550. Ascham's Herbal. 

 1563. Hill's " Howe to dress, sowe, 



and sette a garden." 

 1557. Tusser's "Husbandrie." 

 1565. Bulleyn. 

 1568. Turner's Herbal. 

 1597. Gerarde. 

 1608. Sir G. Plattes. 

 1613. Markham (Gervase). 

 1625. Bacon. 

 1629. Parkinson. 



ia« f^P\ AU wi' ] Fruit trees 

 16u3. John Beale (S. - , nry ,r,^ 

 \ Hartlib), J (Oxfad). 

 1658. John Evelyn. 

 1665. Royal Soc. Phil. Trans. 

 1683. John Read. Scotch Gardener. 

 1699. Loudon and Wise. First 

 Great Nursery. 



If you study a chronological list of the printed books on gar- 

 dening, you will find more chaff than golden grain — a large 

 quantity of literary sack as compared with a small quantity of 

 really nourishing bread. But after printing became general you 

 get a good gardening book on an average every ten years. There 

 is a sort of backbone of good books, and to this main column is 



