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CHAPTER VIII.
ELIZABETHAN GARDEN LITERATURE.
“ Bring hether the Pinke and purple Cullambine
With gelliflowers,
Bring Coronations, and Sops in wine,
Worne of Paramoures
Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies
And Cowslips and Kingcups and loved Lillies,
The pretty Pawnee
And the Chevisaunce
Shall match with the fayre flowre Delice.”
Spenser.
TVTHILE Henry VIII. was reigning in England, great
advances were being made on the Continent in the
science of Botany. The Botanic Garden at Padua was founded
in 1545, and was quickly followed by one at Pisa. But it was
nearly a century later before we could boast of one in England.
The rest of Europe was before us too, in Botanical litera-
ture. The Aggregator Practicus di Simplicibus was probably
printed by Schceffer between 1475-80. The Ortus Sanitatus
was printed in 1485, and was the basis of all the botanical
works that immediately followed it. It was also the foundation
of the English Grete Herball. This book was printed by
Peter Treveris, and several editions of it appeared. The first
of these is said to have been printed in 1516, but the existence
of a copy of this issue seems somewhat doubtful, the earliest
edition, of which many copies are extant, being that of 1526.
A translation of Macer’s Herbal was printed about 1530, but
it is to William Turner that we owe the first really English
Herbal. Herbal literature has perhaps more in common with
ELIZABETHAN GARDEN LITERATURE.
“ Bring hether the Pinke and purple Cullambine
With gelliflowers,
Bring Coronations, and Sops in wine,
Worne of Paramoures
Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies
And Cowslips and Kingcups and loved Lillies,
The pretty Pawnee
And the Chevisaunce
Shall match with the fayre flowre Delice.”
Spenser.
TVTHILE Henry VIII. was reigning in England, great
advances were being made on the Continent in the
science of Botany. The Botanic Garden at Padua was founded
in 1545, and was quickly followed by one at Pisa. But it was
nearly a century later before we could boast of one in England.
The rest of Europe was before us too, in Botanical litera-
ture. The Aggregator Practicus di Simplicibus was probably
printed by Schceffer between 1475-80. The Ortus Sanitatus
was printed in 1485, and was the basis of all the botanical
works that immediately followed it. It was also the foundation
of the English Grete Herball. This book was printed by
Peter Treveris, and several editions of it appeared. The first
of these is said to have been printed in 1516, but the existence
of a copy of this issue seems somewhat doubtful, the earliest
edition, of which many copies are extant, being that of 1526.
A translation of Macer’s Herbal was printed about 1530, but
it is to William Turner that we owe the first really English
Herbal. Herbal literature has perhaps more in common with