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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    It is particularly to be predicated, if I do not err, of William Turner, that he was the first, in his little book published in 1549, to give the vulgar names of herbs and plants, as well as their scientific denominations. Our remote forerunners, long before the Conquest, made mead or metheglin from the honey of wild bees; and this product was at the same time, in the absence of any other sweetening medium, the only substitute for sugar. Bee-culture, therefore, acquired by degrees considerable importance and development, and there were persons who reared them specially, and owned what might be termed bee-farms, with hinds to attend to the hives. An account of the principal works on bees will be furnished hereafter.