TULIP. 141 



Turner dedicated to Queen Elizabeth in the year 

 1568, the Tulip is not mentioned ; but in the Re- 

 membrances for Master S., by Richard Hakluyt, in 

 1582, we are told that " now within these four 

 years there have been brought in England, from 

 Vienna in Austria, divers kinds of flowers called 

 Tulipas." 



And that excellent vegetable historian, Gerard, 

 gives us an account of the Tulip, which also fixes 

 its first introduction at the same period, viz., 1577. 

 This author says in his work, which bears date 

 1597, "my kming friend Master James Garret, a 

 curious searcher of Simples, and learned Apothe- 

 carie in London, hath vndertaken to finde out, if it 

 were possible, the infinite sorts, by diligent sowing 

 of their seedes, and by planting those of his owne 

 propagation, and by others received from his friends 

 beyond the seas, for the space of twentie yeeres 

 not being yet able to attaine to the end of his 

 trauaile, for that each new yeere bringeth foorth 

 new plants of sundrie colours not before seene : all 

 which to describe particulate, were to roule Sisi- 

 phus stone, or number the sandes." The same 

 author says, " Tulipa groweth wilde in Thracia, 

 Cappadocia, Italic; in Bizantia about Constanti- 

 nople, at Tripolis, and Alepo in Syria, from 

 whence I haue receiued plants for my garden, and 

 Master Garth, a worshipful gentleman, and Master 



