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often heretofore remerabred, that, as hee said, a good ship might be 

 loaden with the rootes hereof, which hee saw in an Island there." 



On p. 388, of the Mountain Valerian, Nardus Montana tuherosa, 

 Parkinson writes : — " The Mountaine Valerian I had of the libei-alitie 

 of ray louing friend lohn Tradescante, who in his ti-auaile, and search 

 of natures varieties, met with it, and imparted thereof vnto me." 



On p. 528, after describing the Virginia Strawberry, Parkinson 

 says : — •" There is another very like vnto this, that lohn Tradescante 

 brought with him from Brussels long agoe, and in seuen yeares could 

 neuer see one berry ripe on all sides, but still the better part rotten, 

 although it would euery yeare flower abundantly, and beare very 

 large leaues." 



On p. 574 occurs : — " John Tradescantes Chen-ie is most usually 

 sold by our Nursery Gardiners, for the Archdukes cherrie, because 

 they haue more plenty thereof, and will better be increased " ; and, 

 under Plums, on the next page, 



" of all which sorts, the choysest for goodnesse, and rarest for know- 

 ledge, are to be had of my very good friend Master John Trades- 

 cante, who hath wonderfully laboured to obtaine all the rarest fruits 

 he can heare off in any place in Christendome, Turky, yea or the 

 whole world ; as also with Master John Millen, dwelling in Okie 

 streete, who from John Ti-adescante and all others that haue had 

 good fruit, hath stored himselfe." 



On p. 579, speaking of " The Argier Apricocke," Parkinson 

 writes : — -" this with many other sorts John Tradescante brought with 

 him returning from the Argier voyage, whither hee went voluntary 

 with the Fleete, that went against the Pyi-ates in the yeare 1G20." 



It rather appears as if Parkinson's friendship for the elder 

 Tradescant, beginning before the latter's journey to Kussia (1GI8), 

 when he was still at or near Canterbury, had intensified after his 

 settling at Lambeth and while the wi-iting of the Faradisus was in 

 progress. 



It seems clear (see Vines and Druce, 3Ioriso7iian Herhariumy 

 pp. xv-xvi) that Lord Danby had arranged that Tradescant was to be 

 the first gardener of the Oxford Garden at " a yearly stipend of 

 50 li.," in 1637 ; buttlie latter seems to have died in August of the 

 year 1637, before entering on those duties, and some three years 

 before the appearance of Parkinson's Theatrum (1640). 



In this latter work the most noticeable passages referring to 

 Tradescant are on pp. 218, 343, and 624. The first of these, referring 

 to Veratrum album L., is practically identical with that already 

 cited from the Paradinus. The next, on p. 343, under Mandra- 

 gora, " I saw in my Lord Wootton his Garden at Canterbury, 

 whereof M""- John Tradescant had then the keeping an other sort," 

 shows that, not only had Tradescant at that period sent roots to Par- 

 kinson, but that the latter had also visited him there. To the passage 

 on ]). 624 reference has already been made as showing that Tradescant 

 accompanied Buckingham's disastrous expedition to Uhe. 



Elsewliere, as on j). 1206, Parkinson is careful to distinguish 

 " M''- Tradescant the younger " as having brought plants from Vir- 

 ginia and (p. 1465) supplied Parkinson with seed. It is interesting 



