REFERENCE BOOKS ON ENGLISH GARDENING LITERATURE. 



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Gervase Markham, " The English Husbandman," together 

 with the art of planting, grafting, and gardening, by G. M., 

 London. T. S. for John Browne, 1618, quarto. 



The second booke of " The English Husbandman," contain- 

 ing the ordering of the kitchen -garden. London, T. S., 1014, 

 quarto. Again reprinted and enlarged by the author in three 

 parts, 4to., in 1635. 



Maison Eustique, 1616. See 1600. Estienne and Liebault, 

 Surflet. 



The "Country Housewife's Garden," with the husbandry of 

 bees, with divers new knots for gardens, by G. M., 1617, quarto. 

 Again re-issued in 1618 with Lawson's " New Orchard," and 

 alone in 1620, and again in 1623. 



Markham's " Farewell to Husbandry, or the Inriching of all 

 sorts of Barren and Sterile Grounds." . . . J.B. for Koger Jackson, 

 1620, quarto. 



The " Inrichment of the Weald of Kent." . . . G. P. for R. 

 Jackson, 1625, quarto. 



" The Whole Art of Husbandrie," by C. Heresbach, translated 

 by B. Googe, enlarged by Gervase Markham 1631, quarto. 



1613-38. "A Way to Get Wealthe, or Cheap and Good 

 Husbandry," quarto, 1638-48. A collection of Markham's 

 quartos bound together. My own copy contains in all nine of 

 these quartos that had previously been issued separately— viz., 

 "A Way to Get Wealth," "Country Contentments," " The 

 English Housewife," " The Inrichment of the Weald of Kent," 

 "Farewell to Husbandry," Lawson's "New Orchard and Garden," 

 " The Country Housewife's Garden," Harward's " Art of Propa- 

 gating Plants," and " The Husbandman's Fruitfull Orchard." 

 These collected works are very interesting, dealing as they do 

 with most of the aspects of country life of the time, such as soils, 

 horse and cattle and poultry, breeding, hunting, angling, cocking, 

 hawking, fish and fish-ponds, diseases and medicines for men 

 and animals, cookery and distillation of herbs, &c, brewing ales 

 and wines, gardening, orchards and bees, &c. 



" The Countryman's Recreation, or the Art of Planting, 

 Grafting, and Gardening," London, 1840, quarto. Again 

 reprinted and reissued in 1653 and in 1654. 



1629. After Gerarde comes John Parkinson, who published 

 his delightful folio " Paradisus Terrestris," or a Garden of 



