Samuel Gilbert

Samuel Gilbert (died ) was an English cleric, writer on horticulture, and floriculturist.

Life Gilbert was chaplain to Jane, wife of Charles Gerard, 4th Baron Gerard of Gerards Bromley, and rector of Quatt in Shropshire. He seems to have lived with his father-in-law John Rea, who died in 1681, at Kinlet, Shropshire, near Bewdley. The date of his death is uncertain.

Works In 1676 Gilbert published a pamphlet entitled Fons Sanitatis, or the Healing Spring at Willowbridge in Staffordshire, found out by … Lady Jane Gerard, London, pp. 40, some of the cures recorded in which work are attested by himself. It has therefore been suggested that he also practised as a physician.

After the death of Rea, in 1681, he also published the Florist's Vademecum and Gardener's Almanack, 1683, subsequent editions of which appeared in 1690, 1693, 1702, and 1713. The work is arranged according to the months, and to the second edition are added various appendices and a portrait of the author, engraved by Robert White, which was reproduced in the Journal of Horticulture.