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

  • William Carew Hazlitt
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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    study technical works, was relatively small; and the great commercial success of such productions in a sister art—that of cookery —as The Book of Cookery, Mrs. Glasse, and Mrs. Rundell, may have been due, to some extent, to the more general patronage of private female buyers. The cook, both professional and amateur, has always per- haps been more disposed to work by book than the gardener, whose operations are more dependent on circumstances. A notion has, I think, prevailed for a long time in this country that Evelyn was the first writer on tree-culture and gardening among us, just as Mrs. Glasse was the pioneer in the literature connected with the culinary art, and the author of the Pilgrwi s Progress the earliest writer of allegory ! General readers —by which ought to be understood gentlemen and ladies who generally don’t read—do not care to go back too far into the dim past, and for them Mr. Evelyn and Mrs. Glasse are old enough ; just as Johnson''s Dictionary is, for aught they know or care, the earliest book of the kind, and Johnson himself as much of
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