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herborising excursions that afterwards formed a feature of the 

 Apothecary's Society, and led eventually to the compilation of 

 local and county floras. His list of the plants found growing 

 on Hampstead Heath in 1G32 is, perhaps, the first local flora ever 

 printed in England. 



His great work was his much improved and corrected edition 

 of Gerarde's " Herbal " of 1G38, to which he added 800 plants and 

 700 figures, and above all he very clearly points out where he 

 altered or augmented the original Gerarde of 1597. 



He was also a soldier in the Civil War, and acting as lieu- 

 tenant-colonel he received a shot in the shoulder at Basing House, 

 and died a fortnight afterwards. 



Not infrequently wills and bequests and other memoranda 

 are found inside the cover or on the fly-leaves of this fine old 

 " Herbal." In my own copy of the first edition is the book- 

 plate of Edw. Eyton of Eyton, Esq., and beneath it is written in 

 a clear, bold hand : "I bought this book at auction in the Isle 

 of Wight, bidding against Doctor Joseph Warton, headmaster 

 of Winchester School : price, 19s. 6d., unbound ; binding cost 

 me 10s. 67/. ; total, £1. 10s. Anno domini, 1782. Edw. Eyton, 

 aged 24. N.B.— I give this and all my other books to my son, 

 Hemic Edw. Eyton, who was born in the Isle of Wight 

 February 7, 1784. Ed. Eyton." I have also a copy of John- 

 son's edition of 1G33, on the stout leather binding of which both 

 back and front is stamped, "The gift of P. M. to M. M. and 

 S. B., ano. 170G " ; and another copy of the same edition, which 

 I gave to a friend, had a deed of gift drawn up on one of its fly- 

 leaves. 



1G04. "The Fruiterers' Secrets," by R. B., solde by Roger 

 Jackson, London ; small quarto : was a work dealing with fruits 

 and fruit trees, and was again issued in 1808-9 as " The 

 Husbandman's Fruitfull Orchard." 



1618. Gervase Markham was a most prolific hack-writer of 

 this epoch. He was born at Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, about 

 the middle of the sixteenth century, being a younger and 

 portionless son of Robert Markham, Esq. When in the prime 

 of life he acted as champion and gallant of the Countess of 

 Shrewsbury 1591, and in her cause he was dangerously wounded 

 in a duel with Sir John Halles. His numerous works show that 

 there must have been a strong desire at the time for books deal- 

 ing with gardening and other rural affairs. 



