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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
and perennial; the snowflakes, which were classed with snow-
drops as “ bulbous violets ” ! and Ranunculus, “ the crowfoot of
Illyria ” (7?. illyrius) and asiaticus, also Bachelor’s buttons.
(R. pla/ntanifolius flore-pleno and aconitifolius), from the “ Alpish
Mountains ” ; sweet Sultan, the Centaurea moschata, Dictamus
Fraxinella; Balsam impatiens; some species of campanula, and
the bright Convolvulus minor (C. bicclov).
Several new plants were introduced by the exertions of
some of the leading patrons of gardening. Lord Burghley and
Lord Carew were the first to try growing oranges in England.
Lord Salisbury employed Tradescant to procure new varieties of
fruit trees and other plants from abroad. Lord Zouche, also,
deserves a foremost place among the encouragers of horticulture.
He was the patron of Lobel, and had a fine Physic Garden at
Hackney, of which Lobel had the charge. Lord Zouche himself,,
also brought back plants from abroad. Gerard mentions two in
particular. “The small Candy mustard,” which grows in “Austria,
Candy, Spain and Italy,” was brought by him on his return
“ from those parts.” Also the “ Thorne apple,” the seeds of
which he presented to Gerard.
New plants, and new ideas about gardening, were also coming
in from France and the Low Countries, with the influx of
Protestant refugees. The Huguenots who came to this country
were representatives of almost every trade and craft, and
especially that of gardening, which greatly improved under the
influence of these new-comers, and members of that craft were
among those who took out Letters of Denization in 1544. Many
of these foreign gardeners settled about Sandwich, Colchester,
and Norwich, and greatly improved gardening in those districts.
Foreign gardeners were employed by several landowners in the
neighbourhood, to alter and lay out their gardens. In 1575, a
Dutch gardener was paid 3s. 4b. for “his travayle from Norwich
to Hengrave to viewe ye orchards, gardyns and walks,”
and 40s. was also “paid to the Dutchman for Hypping the
knotts, altering the alleys, setting the grounde, finding herbs
and bordering the same.” * It was these foreigners, also, who
* Huguenot Society. Walloons and their Church at Norwich. W. T. C.
Moens, 1887.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
and perennial; the snowflakes, which were classed with snow-
drops as “ bulbous violets ” ! and Ranunculus, “ the crowfoot of
Illyria ” (7?. illyrius) and asiaticus, also Bachelor’s buttons.
(R. pla/ntanifolius flore-pleno and aconitifolius), from the “ Alpish
Mountains ” ; sweet Sultan, the Centaurea moschata, Dictamus
Fraxinella; Balsam impatiens; some species of campanula, and
the bright Convolvulus minor (C. bicclov).
Several new plants were introduced by the exertions of
some of the leading patrons of gardening. Lord Burghley and
Lord Carew were the first to try growing oranges in England.
Lord Salisbury employed Tradescant to procure new varieties of
fruit trees and other plants from abroad. Lord Zouche, also,
deserves a foremost place among the encouragers of horticulture.
He was the patron of Lobel, and had a fine Physic Garden at
Hackney, of which Lobel had the charge. Lord Zouche himself,,
also brought back plants from abroad. Gerard mentions two in
particular. “The small Candy mustard,” which grows in “Austria,
Candy, Spain and Italy,” was brought by him on his return
“ from those parts.” Also the “ Thorne apple,” the seeds of
which he presented to Gerard.
New plants, and new ideas about gardening, were also coming
in from France and the Low Countries, with the influx of
Protestant refugees. The Huguenots who came to this country
were representatives of almost every trade and craft, and
especially that of gardening, which greatly improved under the
influence of these new-comers, and members of that craft were
among those who took out Letters of Denization in 1544. Many
of these foreign gardeners settled about Sandwich, Colchester,
and Norwich, and greatly improved gardening in those districts.
Foreign gardeners were employed by several landowners in the
neighbourhood, to alter and lay out their gardens. In 1575, a
Dutch gardener was paid 3s. 4b. for “his travayle from Norwich
to Hengrave to viewe ye orchards, gardyns and walks,”
and 40s. was also “paid to the Dutchman for Hypping the
knotts, altering the alleys, setting the grounde, finding herbs
and bordering the same.” * It was these foreigners, also, who
* Huguenot Society. Walloons and their Church at Norwich. W. T. C.
Moens, 1887.