It was written by Thomas Hill, using the pseudonym Didymus Mountain, with Henry Dethick[1] and published in 1577.
They dig, rake, train climbers over arbours and plant flowers in raised beds.
Hill was responsible too for A most briefe and pleasant treatise, teaching how to dress, some, and set a garden in 1563.
[5] The book includes a poem, addressed to the reader, where Dethicks explains his contribution after Thomas Hill's death.
'Considering (right honourable) my promise plighted unto my friend (lately entrered) I was informed to performe the perfecting of this English Treatise'.