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JOURNAL OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A Short List of Authors and their works that have 



MOST INFLUENCED HORTICULTURAL PURSUITS IN ENGLAND. 



Alexander Neckham, Abbot of Cirencester (1213) (1157-1217) 

 and Bishop Grosseteste or Grossheade of Lincoln (1175-1.253) 

 were two of the earliest English writers on gardens and their 

 contents. Both studied in the University at Paris, and were 

 no doubt also influenced by the work of Palladius, " De Be 

 Rustica." 



Grossheade (sometime Bishop of Lincoln), 1500. " A Boke 

 of Husbandry." A quarto of twelve leaves only printed at London 

 by Wynken de Worde. 



As to our native fruits and vegetables England was no doubt 

 well supplied in British and Saxon times, Apples, Pears, 

 Cherries (two species, sweet and bitter), Kaspberries, Straw- 

 berries, and Gooseberries, being all wild in Britain. 



Amongst vegetables also wild there is Cabbage, Carrot, and 

 Seakale, Alexanders (supplanted by Celery), Asparagus, Sea Peas, 

 and Beets, all of which would be available in quantity, while Leeks, 

 Onions, and Garlic, if not really native, were always carried by 

 the earliest of travellers and voyagers, as they are all the world 

 over at the present time (see Earle's " Early English Plant 

 Names," 1880). 



1516-1561. " The Great Herbal" folio. From the French. 

 Several editions. Haylit and Miss Amherst both name five and 

 seven respectively, viz. 1516, 1526, 1529, 1539, and 1561. (This 

 work was no doubt in part founded on the " Ortis Sanitatis," of 

 which there are many editions.) 



1525-1526. "The Little Herbal," quarto. From the Latin. 



1523-48. " Fitzherbert's Husbandry," small quarto, several 

 editions. Pynson and Berthelet were the printers. 



1525. " Walter Cary's (W. C.) Herbal," small quarto, " a boke 

 of the properties of Herbes " ; several editions printed by 

 R. Banckes 1525. Robert Redman ? 1530, small 8vo. 

 W. Copland for J. Wright ? 1552, small 8vo., and there are 

 others by Skot and Kitson undated. 



1527. " Master Jerome Brunswick," folio, "newly translate 

 out of Duyche into Englysshe," by the printer Laurence Andrew, 

 London. This is scarcely a herbal proper, but is entitled " The 



