William Turner

1511 William Turner, " the Father of English Botany," published his New Herball in London. In the second part of his Herball, published in 1562, he refers to paeonies with practically an exact copy of Dioscorides in his description of the different parts. He goes on, " the female is common throughout all England and in some parts of Brabant as in Peter Coddenberges garden in Antwerp, the male groweth also. But I could never see it in high Germany. The fairest I ever saw was in Newberri in a rich clothier's garden." Then he describes the different ailments the parts of the paeony are said to cure, following the same lines as Dioscorides.

Stern 1946