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Hill, Thomas (1543?-1577?)

See Early writers on English gardening, no.
1. Jour. Hort. 52:448-450, port. 1874.

The gardeners labyrinth: containing a discourse of the
gardeners life, in the yearly travels to be bestowed on
his plot of earth, for the use of a garden ... Gathered
out of the best approved writers of gardening, husbandrie,
and physicke: by Dydymus Mountains [pseud.] London,
Printed by H. Bynneman, 1577. 80, 180 p. (Dept. Agr.; Folger Lib.; Bodleian;
Brit. Mus.)
Martyn, in Miller's Gard. Diet., gives full
title, with Bynneman as printer, but date 1571,
and Johnson, p.66, gives 1571 as date of first
part, with 1577 for the second part. 1577, however, 
is commonly accepted as earliest date for
the work. British Museum enters some editions
under the pseudonym: Mountaine, Dydimus. 
[insert margin note] 1577 in STC 
Entered in Stat.
Reg. Se.3, 1576. [end note]

----- London, Printed for J. Wolfe, 1586. 80,180 p.
(Dept. Agr.; Folger Lib.; Huntington Lib.; Bodleian; Rothamsted)
Dept. Agr. copy lacks title-page.

----- London, Printed for Adam Islip, 1594. (Brit.
Mus.)

----- London, Printed for H. Ballard, 1594. 2 ports.
(Brit. Mus.)

----- London, Printed for H. Ballard, 1608. 80,180 p.
(Lib. Cong.; Boston Athenaeum; N. Y. Pub. Lib.)

----- The gardeners labyrinth, or A new art of gardning (sic)
... Collected from the most approved authors, besides forty
years experience in the art of gardning: by D. M. And now
newly corrected and inlarged. London, Printed by J. Bell,
1652, 51. 90, 173 p. (Mass. Hort. Soc.; Brit. Mus.)
"The second part of the gardeners labyrinth”
173 p., has date 1651.

----- London, 1656. (Brit. Mus.)

----- London, Jane Bell, 1659. (Seguier, p.405)
        