Gleanings in old garden literature / by W. Carew Hazlitt.

  • Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913.
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Gleanings in old garden literature / by W. Carew Hazlitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    angling, set forth his gardening manual under this title:—A Booke of the Arte and Maner home to plant and graffe all sortes of trees, howe to set stones, and sowe Pepmes to fnake wylde trees to grafpe on, as also re7nedies and 7nedicines. With divers other new practises, with a7i Addition m the e7ide of this Booke, of certaine Dutch practises. This production owes its chief value to the fact that it is seemingly the parent attempt to enlarge the still narrow enough experience of our native gardeners by en- abling them to see in print, if not in actual working, what was being done in the same di- rection abroad, and not only in France, with which the English had always had tolerably close relations, but in the Netherlands, where the science of horticulture was receiving greater attention than at any former period. But it does not appear that the Dutch ideas met at this time with much favour at our hands. Those who did not admire French models for laying out their grounds had recourse to the Italian; and there were some who adopted a sort of compound of