Thomas Hill, The Gardener's Labryrinth (1577)
Date
1577
Author
Editor
Book title
The Gardeners Labyrinth: Containing a discourse of the Gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestowed on his plot of earth, for the vse of a Garden: with instructions for the choise of Seedes, apte times for sowing, setting, planting, & watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: Wherein are set forth diuers Herbers, Knottes and Mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of Gardens. Also the Physike benefit of eche Herbe, Plant, and Floure, with the vertues of the distilled Waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare
Dedicated to
Publication place
London
Printer
Henry Bynneman
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
herbal
Summary
Occasional comments on the names of the herbs in chapter-length articles in the second part
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: other
sample: The most auntient of the Greekes deuided the Colewort into three kindes only, as the crisped, which they named Selinoidea, for the similitude of the leaues of Parselie, the same of the Lean, for the brode leaues issuing or growing forthe of the stemme, for whyche cause, some named it Cauloden. And the same whych properly is named Crabe, growyng vppe with thinner leaues, both single, and very thicke. (p. 4; sig. l2v)
sample: The most auntient of the Greekes deuided the Colewort into three kindes only, as the crisped, which they named Selinoidea, for the similitude of the leaues of Parselie, the same of the Lean, for the brode leaues issuing or growing forthe of the stemme, for whyche cause, some named it Cauloden. And the same whych properly is named Crabe, growyng vppe with thinner leaues, both single, and very thicke. (p. 4; sig. l2v)
Alston
XVII.I.75
STC
13485
Other editions
1578: STC 13486 (Alston XVII.I.76);
1586: STC 13487 (Alston XVII.I.77);
1594: STC 13488 (Alston XVII.I.78);
1608: STC 13489 (Alston XVII.I.79);
1651: Wing H2016 (Alston XVII.I.80);
1656: Wing H2017 (Alston XVII.I.81);
1660: Wing H2017A (Alston XVII.I.82)
1586: STC 13487 (Alston XVII.I.77);
1594: STC 13488 (Alston XVII.I.78);
1608: STC 13489 (Alston XVII.I.79);
1651: Wing H2016 (Alston XVII.I.80);
1656: Wing H2017 (Alston XVII.I.81);
1660: Wing H2017A (Alston XVII.I.82)
Criticisms
Johnson, Francis R. "Thomas Hill: An Elizabethan Huxley." The Huntington Library Quarterly 4 (1944 August): 329-51.
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