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in 1516. It was followed in 1523 by Fitzherbert’s 
“ Husbandry,” of which four versions were printed. 
Then in 1525 came W(alter) C(ary’s) “Herball” (three 
editions), “Jerome of Brunswick-Andrew,” a folio 
printed in London in 1527 ; Macer’s “Herbal,” 1535. 
The “ Libellus ” of William Turner appeared in 1548, 
“The Names of Herbes ” in 1548, and “New Herball” 
in 1551, with a second part in 1562. In 1540 Andrew 
Borde brought out “a Boke for to lerne a Man to be 
Wy se in buylding of his House.” In 1573 came Thomas 
Tusser’s “ Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,” 
and in 1563 Thomas Hill produced “ A Most Brief and 
Pleasaunt Treaty se teachynge how to Dress, So we and 
Set a Garden,” and in 1568 “The Profytable Arte of 
Gardening,” and he was possibly the author of “ The 
Gardeners Labyrinth,” London, 1577. In 1578 
Dodoens-Lyte published at Antwerp “ A Newe 
Herball,” republished in 1586, 1595, and l6l9- In 
1579 William Langham produced “The Garden of 
Health,” and in 1592 John Wolf brought out a little 
treatise (the unique property of Earl Crewe) entitled 
“ Short Instructions Very Profitable and Necessary 
for all those that delight in Gardening.” John 
Gerard’s “ Catalogue of Trees,” another unique book 
now in the British Museum, is dated 1596, while his 
“Herball” appeared in 1597. In 1599 Dubravius 
published “A Newe Bookeon Good Husbandry,” and 
Gardner’s “ Kitchen Garden ” is said to have appeared 
in the same year, but no copy is known. These 
practically complete a list of the more important 
books of the period dealing with gardening and 
plants. Here it will be well to leave them. Eliza¬ 
bethan methods survived for some time, and it was 
not, perhaps, until the eighteenth century that 
“ pleached alleys,” mounds and knotted beds fell out 
of favour. Nowadays there is an echo in the air of 
better ways. Such gardens as those of Mr. Freeman- 
