Anonymous, The Fromond List of Garden Plants (ca. 1525)

Date

1525ca.

Author

Anonymous

Lexicon title

Herbys necessary for a gardyn by letter

Transcription source

British Library Sloane MS 1201, fols. 1 ff.

Text type

manuscript

Genre

General English Dictionaries and Glossaries

Subject area

herbal

Summary

A list of about 138 plants associated with Thomas Fromond / Formond of Carssalton, Surrey (died March 21, 1542/43). The list has nine sections: for a garden, for pottage, for sauce, for the cop, for salad, to still, for savour and beauty, roots, and for an herber.

Language

headwords: English

Word-group

type: topical
number: 9

Word-entry

type: headword

Modern editions

Harvey, John. Early Gardening Catalogues with Complete Reprints of Lists and Accounts of the 16th-19th Centuries. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1972. view record
Harvey, John H. "Garden Plants of around 1525: The Fromond List." Garden History 17.2 (1989): 122-34. view record