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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
While such progress was being made in the decoration and
laying-out of the flower-garden, the fruit and kitchen-gardens
were not altogether neglected. Besides such fruits as were
already in common use, others were introduced, and those
indigenous in the country, were improved. The strawberry was
largely planted, and carefully cultivated :—
“ If frost do continue take this for a lawe
The strawberies look to be covered with strawe
Laid overly trim, upon crotchis and bows
And after uncovered as weather allows.” *
From the following verse, in September’s husbandrie, it is clear
where the strawberry plants were procured :—
“ Wife unto thy garden and set me a plot
With strawbery rootes of the best to be got.
Such growing abroade, among thornes in the wood
Wei chosen and picked proove excellent good.”
It was not only for humble folk that wild strawberry roots were
gathered, for, in the oft-quoted Hampton Court Accounts, we
find several entries of money paid for strawberry roots, brought
from the woods for the King’s garden.t
The raspberry had until this period been more or less
ignored, and even now seems not to have been very generally
grown. Turner, in 1548, says of “ Rubus ideus in Englishe
raspeses or hyndberies .... growe most plentuously in the
woddes in east Freseland .... they growe also in certayne
gardines of Englande.” He also says of them, “ The taste of
it is soure.” The gooseberry, which does not appear in earlier
gardens, was now grown. It was planted in some of Henry
the Eighth’s gardens in 1516. Turner calls it “ a groser bushe,
a goosebery bushe,” and says of it “ It groweth only that I
have sene in England, in gardines, but I have sene it in Germany
* Tusser, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie.
f “ Emptions of strowbery roots violettes and primerose roots for the
new garden—also paid to Ales Brewer and Margaret Rogers for gathering
of 34 bushels of strowberry roots, primerose and violettes at 3d. the bushel,
8s. 6d. Item to Matthew Garrett of Kyngston for setting of the said rootes and.
flowers by the space of 20 days at 3d. the day, 5s.”
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
While such progress was being made in the decoration and
laying-out of the flower-garden, the fruit and kitchen-gardens
were not altogether neglected. Besides such fruits as were
already in common use, others were introduced, and those
indigenous in the country, were improved. The strawberry was
largely planted, and carefully cultivated :—
“ If frost do continue take this for a lawe
The strawberies look to be covered with strawe
Laid overly trim, upon crotchis and bows
And after uncovered as weather allows.” *
From the following verse, in September’s husbandrie, it is clear
where the strawberry plants were procured :—
“ Wife unto thy garden and set me a plot
With strawbery rootes of the best to be got.
Such growing abroade, among thornes in the wood
Wei chosen and picked proove excellent good.”
It was not only for humble folk that wild strawberry roots were
gathered, for, in the oft-quoted Hampton Court Accounts, we
find several entries of money paid for strawberry roots, brought
from the woods for the King’s garden.t
The raspberry had until this period been more or less
ignored, and even now seems not to have been very generally
grown. Turner, in 1548, says of “ Rubus ideus in Englishe
raspeses or hyndberies .... growe most plentuously in the
woddes in east Freseland .... they growe also in certayne
gardines of Englande.” He also says of them, “ The taste of
it is soure.” The gooseberry, which does not appear in earlier
gardens, was now grown. It was planted in some of Henry
the Eighth’s gardens in 1516. Turner calls it “ a groser bushe,
a goosebery bushe,” and says of it “ It groweth only that I
have sene in England, in gardines, but I have sene it in Germany
* Tusser, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie.
f “ Emptions of strowbery roots violettes and primerose roots for the
new garden—also paid to Ales Brewer and Margaret Rogers for gathering
of 34 bushels of strowberry roots, primerose and violettes at 3d. the bushel,
8s. 6d. Item to Matthew Garrett of Kyngston for setting of the said rootes and.
flowers by the space of 20 days at 3d. the day, 5s.”