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CHAP. 9. 
Account of Dodoens, and his Pemptades, as intro^ 
du5iory to the Herbal ofQftx^x^—Circumfiances 
cf the times favourable to Gerard. 
Account ^t/" Gerard — "The catalogue of his garden-^ 
Account of his Herbal ; a popular work for more 
than a century -^Contemporary Botanifts : Hef- 
keth— Garet : the correfpondent of Glufius— 
Lete^ and others, 
GERARD. 
LOBE L's writings, howfoever efteem-^ 
ed by the learned, having never been 
tranflated into Englifh, could not become 
popular ; and, at the conclufion of the fix- 
teenth century. Turner's book was, pro- 
bably no lefs obiolete, than Lyte's was 
imperfeft. Thefe circumftances^ confpiring 
with the growing tafte of the times for gar- 
dening, it may be prefumed, incited Ge- 
rard to undertake his Herbal: a work 
which maintained its credit and efteem for 
more than a century j and, pleafing as it is 
to reflect on the rapid progrefs and im- 
provement of Botany, within the laft half 
century, yet there are many now living who 
can 
