The Art of Gardening by Thomas Hyll
Lack, Alastair
One of the earliest books on gardening to be written in English in 1574, this book covers gardening, herbalism, weather, beekeeping and grafting in one volume, offering a fascinating insight into the extent of the understanding of the natural world of plants and diseases in Tudor times, when Queen Elizabeth was on the throne of England, and Mary Queen of Scots her prisoner.