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ed on one hundred and nine tables, which 
appear to have been cut on purpofe for this 
Work. Many are copied from Clusius 
and LoBEL. The figures are lefs com- 
mendable for the defign than the execution, 
and are much inferior, on the whole, to 
thofe of Gerard's Herbal." In the 
Latin names, the author has made ufe prin- 
cipally of C a/per Bauhine ; fome are 
taken from Lobel. The mode of arrange- 
ment in each chapter is fimilar to that of 
Gerard. After the defcription of all the 
fpecies, follow the place, time of flowering, 
fynonyms, and virtues. Lefs is fpoken of 
the culture than feems to be reauifite. 
Several Engliflimen had written on gar- 
dening and agriculture in the fixteenth 
century, of whom the firft on hufbandry, 
as far as I can find, was Antony Fitzher- 
SERT, a famious lawyer and juftice of the 
King's Bench, whofe Booke of Huf- 
bandrie'' was printed firft in 1534. One 
of the earlieft, if not the firft on gardening, 
is Thojnas Hill, His profytable Art of 
Gardening," printed in 1574. The next 
was, The new Orchard and Garden," by 
William 
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