Published virtues of the Earth : an introduction. - The bookish nature of botanical culture: continental contexts. - Botanical renaissance : a potted history . - Words and things in humanist herbalism. - Botany by the book. - Botanical gardens in book form : the herbaria. - Botanical reformation in William Turner's books of nature. - Biographical contexts. - Anthological botany. - Turner's reforms : naming and translating. - What's in a name? : truth, falsity, and fiction. - John Gerard's uncommon ground. - The garden grows : from catalogue to herbal. - The anthology of nature : Gerard's herbal authorship. - Botanical poetics and the rhetoric of description. - Imaginary gardens : poets as herbalists. - Domesticated plants and domesticating books : cultivating household textual collection. - The place of books. - The place of plants. - Gallery and paradise. - Stillroom and study . - Posies transposed. - Epilogue