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IN these days of paper shortage and restrictions, it has remained for the enterprising owner of a private press in the Middle West to perform a service that has long been overdue. The first printed gardening book written in English has for centuries only been obtainable for reference in the greater libraries like the British Museum, and by so much is this reprint the more welcome. The suggestion was made to the publisher by Miss Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, who contributes a short introduction.
First Garden Book
Being a faithful Reprint of a Most Briefe and Pleasaunt Treatyse, Teachynge Howe to Dress, Sowe and Set a Garden by Thomas Hyll, Londyner 1563. Collated and Edited by Violet Hal Trovillion. (Trovillion Private Press, at the sign of the Silver Horse, Herrin, Illinois, U.S.A., 1946.) 3 dollars.
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FUSSELL, G. Hyll's "First Garden Book". Nature 164, 550 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164550a0
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