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CHAPTER 6. 
To conclude. Dr. Bulleyn's fpecific 
knowledge of Botany feems to have been 
but flender. His zeal for the promotion of 
the ufeful arts of gardening, the general 
culture of the land, and the commercial in- 
tereds of the kingdom, deferved the highefl 
praife, and for the information he has left 
of thefe affairs, in his own time, pofterity 
owe him acknowledgments. 
Although the progrefs of gardening does 
not enter into my plan, yet I am tempted, 
in this place, to remark, that, notwith- 
jftanding culinary herbs and roots, and many 
fruits, are faid to have been imported in the 
reign of Henry the 'Eighth y from Holland 
and France ; and that the true asra of im- 
provement in this art, cannot be carried, at 
the mofk remote time, beyond the fame 
. reign, yet it may juftly be doubted, whether 
it was then in fo low a ftate as hath been 
ufually reprefented. With other arts, in 
its progreffion weft wards, that of Horticul- 
ture muft be fuppofed to have reached the 
Lo%v Countries and France^ before England ^ 
and a general, and prior fuperiority to our 
neighbours may be granted ; and that a 
fafliion. 
