Anonymous, The Fromond List of Garden Plants (ca. 1525)

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Date
1525ca.
Author
Lexicon title
Herbys necessary for a gardyn by letter
Transcription source
British Library Sloane MS 1201, fols. 1 ff.
Text type
manuscript
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Subject area
herbal
Summary
A list of about 138 plants associated with Thomas Fromond / Formond of Carssalton, Surrey (died March 21, 1542/43). The list has nine sections: for a garden, for pottage, for sauce, for the cop, for salad, to still, for savour and beauty, roots, and for an herber.
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: topical
number: 9
Word-entry
type: headword
Modern editions
Harvey, John. Early Gardening Catalogues with Complete Reprints of Lists and Accounts of the 16th-19th Centuries. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1972. view record
Harvey, John H. "Garden Plants of around 1525: The Fromond List." Garden History 17.2 (1989): 122-34. view record