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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
phelyp qwen of Ingelond.” 1 This, of course, was Philippa of 
Hainault, wife of Edward III., and it is interesting to note that 
there is a MS. in the British Museum, 2 with the following title : 
“ Chiburn on the virtues of Ros maryn written at the com¬ 
mand of the Countess of Henawd who sent the copy to her 
daughter Phylyp, Queen of England.” 
Another medical work, by “ the venerable doctor, Master 
Gilbert Kymer,” is a treatise addressed to Humphrey, Duke 
of Gloucester, entitled Dietarium de Sanitatis Custodia. Kymer 
gives a list of herbs to be put in potage, that the Duke might 
safely take, also full instructions as to what fruits could be 
eaten before meals and what others after. This list in¬ 
cludes, besides the commonest fruits, damsons, strawberries, 
figs, medlars, and peaches, and also foreign fruits and spices. 
A list of plants with Latin, English, and French equivalents 
was made by John Bray, a physician and botanist, in receipt 
of a yearly pension of 100 s from William, Earl of Salisbury, 
and then from Richard II. His work Synonomd de nominibus 
herb arum 2, is simply a good collection of names alphabetically 
arranged, but contains no descriptions or cultural directions. 
Palladius was as much translated in the fifteenth as he had 
been in the thirteenth century. There is no clue to the author 
of the English version, of which a manuscript dating from 
about 1420 exists at Colchester ; 4 but the name and work of 
another translator, of the same date, have been preserved. He 
was a monk of Westminster, named Nicholas Bollard, and either 
himself translated direct from Palladius, or transcribed or 
translated through “ Godfrey,” the parts of the work on 
husbandry relating to grafting, planting, and sowing. Robert 
Salle also reissued part of the same work. 5 Another MS. of 
the fifteenth century known as the Porkington Treatise has 
1 Archeeologia, vol. xxx. 2 Sloane, No. 7, Sec. 5. 
3 Sloane MS. 282 (24), pp. 167 v. to 173 v. 
4 Printed E. Eng. Text Soc., ed. by S. T. H. Herrtage. 
6 The MS. in the British Museum, containing the work by Salle, ends 
thus : ‘ ‘ Here endeth the telyng of trees after Godfray upon paladie and 
her begynneth the tretis of Nicholas Bollard.” Then follows the chapter 
on “ the manner of sectyng of trees,” and grafting, at the end of which 
it is stated : ‘ ‘ here endeth the chapter of the first partie of Godfray upon 
Paladie de Agricultural 
