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Catalogue of Plants Cultivated in the Garden of John Gerard, in the Years 1596-1599 (Paperback)
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Catalogue of Plants Cultivated in the Garden of John Gerard, in the Years 1596-1599 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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For twenty years, the herbalist John Gerard (1545 1612) served as
superintendent of the gardens of Elizabeth I's minister, Lord
Burghley. The 1596 edition of Gerard's Catalogus is probably the
first complete catalogue of any one garden, public or private, ever
published. Describing his own garden, the list includes
frankincense, saffron, an almond tree and even tulips, then exotic
and notoriously costly. Probably intended originally only for the
interest of Gerard's friends, and containing numerous errors, it
progressed in 1599 into a new, improved edition for a much wider
readership. In this book, first published privately in 1876, the
botanist Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1846 1927) reproduces both
editions, preserving the original errors and adding a memoir of the
author that demonstrates the depth of his own research. With the
modern names of the plants printed beside their earlier
counterparts, Jackson's text is a fascinating resource for
historical botanists and taxonomists.
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