John Gerard
John Gerard
John Gerard, also spelt John Gerarde,was a botanist and herbalist. He maintained a large herbal garden in London. His chief notability is as the author of a large – 1484 pages – and heavily illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes. First published in 1597, it was the most widely circulated botany book in English in the 17th century...
cake colored good maid
Otemeale is good for to make a faire and wel colored maid to looke like a cake of tallow
satisfaction may plant
If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.
oil four salad
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.