Lyfe. 
knowledge among the Romans ^ and in 
commendation of gardens, with rules for 
laying them out, and managing them to 
advantage. 
He has followed his original in dividing 
his fubjedts into fix books; and, although 
the general arrangement is confufed, Lyte 
has the merit of having introduced a parti- 
cular order in each chapter, or genus, much 
fuperior to that of Turner ; having di- 
vided the fpecies, defcription, place, time, 
names, nature, and virtues, under thefe fe- 
veral titles, into diftin6l fedions. This ar- 
rangement was adopted by Gerard and 
Parkinson. 
Lyte defcribes one thoufand and fifty 
fpecies, of which eight hundred and feventy 
are figured. The blocks are, I beheve, the 
fame with which Clusius's own tranfla- 
tion w^as printed j being, as far as thofe ex- 
tend, copies from the o6lavo edition of 
FucHsius. Mofl of Turner's figures are 
found in Lyte. The remainder are fuch 
as had been cut for the fubfequent works of 
DoDoENs, and afterwards embellilhed the 
Pemptades of that author, and Gerard's 
hiftory. 
