LaTTson, William 
The country housewifes garden. London, B. Alsop for R. 
Jackson, 1617. (With his: A new orchard and garden. Lon¬ 
don, 1618) (Brit. Mus.) .-r 
Brit. Haa, Cat. enters Lawson’s ”A new orchard 
and garden”, 1st ed., as 3 pts., 1618, 1617, the 
latter evidently referring to ”The country hous e- 
wifes garden”. Altho issued as pt.2 of the ”New 
orchard”, it has the appearance of being published 
prior to it; however, no separate copies of the 
1617 ed. have ever been known. 
The 1617 ed., like that of 1633, is paged in¬ 
dependently, but its paging is not given by the 
Brit. Mus. Cat. Beginning with the 3d ed., 1626, 
this work was paged consecutively with the ”New 
orchard”, and does not appear to have ever been 
issued as an independent work, altho there are 
cases of variation in the date of copies of ”The 
country housewifes garden" found in certain eds. 
of the other work. 
Hence, while the various eds. of Lawson's "New 
orchard and garden” were mostly issued with sets 
of the agricultural writings of Gervase Mar k ham, 
and are to be identified in connection with them, 
the following descriptions of "The country house¬ 
wifes garden” refer merely to the eds. of ”A new 
orchard and garden" with which they were issued, 
regardless of the eds. of Tferkham with which the 
latter are bound, save in cases where the title 
is quoted from an authority who gives only Mark¬ 
ham's ed. as a means of identification. 
It has been impossible to distinguish eds. of 
"The country housewifes garden” with a fxill title 
from others for which the publisher's name has 
been supplied, either with or without brackets. 
Doubtless the publisher's name as given is often 
taken from the title of the "New orchard” and is 
nowhere foimd in the other work. 
