described continental crops and farming methods. Leonard Mascal, who is asserted to have introduced pippin apples and carp, and who had travelled on the Continent, published[1] "A Booke of the Arte and manner, how to plant and graffe all sortes of Trees by one of the Abbey of St. Vincent in France, with an addition of certain Dutch practices," in 1572, "The Husbandrie, ordering and Government of Poultrie," in 1581, and "The Government of Cattel," in 1596, Heresbachius's "Foure Books of Husbandry, Newely Englished, and increased by Barnabe Googe," was published in 1577; Sir Hugh Plat's "Jewel House of Art and Nature," in which a great knowledge of the Low Countries is shown, was published in 1594; Bishop Dubravius's (of Olmutz) "New Booke of Good Husbandry," was published in English in 1599; Sir Cornelius Vermuiden, a Dutchman, published his "Discourses touching the Drayning of the Great Fenns," in 1642; and Hartlib published Sir Richard Weston's "Discourse of Husbandry used in Brabant and Flanders," in 1645, "The Legacy; or, an Enlargement of the Discourse," in 1651, and the "Appendix to the Legacy," in the same year.
Thus, through books and returning soldiers and travellers, a knowledge of the agriculture of the Low Countries was filtering through to English
- ↑ McDonald's "Agricultural Writers," 1908, p. 42.
