Cecil, Evelyn: A history of gardening in England (London: Quaritch, 1896)

344 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
(1650 ?) Peter Stent. Book of Flowers, Fruits, Beasts, Birds,
and Flies . . 4to. A set of engravings *
Ascribed by Hazlitt conjecturally to 1660, but it must have pre-
ceded the following. Stent and Simpson were two engravers in
London about or before the middle of the seventeenth century.
1650 William Simpson. The Second Booke of flowers, fruicts,
beastes, birds, and flies exactly drawne, etc. London,
1650. 4to.
-- another issue. 1661. 4to.
William How. Phytologia Britannica, natales exhibens
Indigenarum Stirpium sponte emergentium
Londini, 1650. 8vo.
1652 Nicholas Culpepper. The English Physitian, or an Astro-
logico-Physical Discourse of the vulgar Herbs of this
Nation. London, Peter Cole, 1652. Folio *
-another issue. 1652, without publisher’s name. i2mo.*
This is the work popularly known as Culpepper’s Herbal. An
edition said to be enlarged was printed in 1654, and was the parent
of all succeeding issues which have appeared frequently down to
the present century.
1653 A Book of Fruits and Flowers shewing the nature and
use of them . . London, 1653
Ralph Austen. A Treatise of Fruit Trees . . Oxford, 1653.
4to.
- - second edition, with the addition of many new
experiments. Oxford, 1657. 4to.
- - (another edition, to which are added) Observa-
tions upon Sir Francis Bacon’s Nat. Hist., also
directions for planting wood. Oxford, 1665. 4to.
- Observations upon some part of Sir F. Bacon’s
Naturall History as it concerns fruit trees, fruits,
and flowers. Oxford, 1658. 4to.
This was the first edition of the “ Observations,” which were
afterwards annexed as a second part to the 1665 edition of the
“ Treatise.”