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 choice of seeds, apt times for sowing, setting, planting, and watering, and the vessels and instruments seruing to that vse and purpose: wherin are set forth diuers herbers, knots, and mazes cunningly handled for the beautifying of gardens. Also the physick benefit of each herb, plant, and flowre, with the vertues of the distilled waters of euery of them, as by the sequele may further appeare. Gathered out of the best approued writers of gardening, husbandrie, and physicke: by Dydymus Mountain.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-

Contributor:

Dethick, Henry, 1545 or 1546-1613.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1382:8.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800.

Herbs--Therapeutic use.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 80 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 180 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Henry Ballard [and E. Allde], 1608.

Notes:

Dydymus Mountain = Thomas Hill.

Editor's dedication signed: Henry Dethicke.

"Allde pr[inted]. S-Ll; Ballard the rest"--STC.

The second part has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous.

Includes index.

At the end of the first part is an unsigned quire, printed on one forme only, with cuts of knots and mazes.

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University. Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1975. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1382:08). s1975 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 13489.

OCLC:

55190314