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SOUTH LAMBETH (LONDON) 
TRADESCANT’S GARDEN 
Established, 1629, by John Tradescant, Senior, as a “ Physic 
Garden,” in South Lambeth, London, nearly opposite “ Spring 
Lane ” on the east side of the South Lambeth road between Stock- 
well and Vauxhall. Lysons (Environs of London, 1: 330) cred- 
its this Garden as “ one of the first established in this Kingdom.” 
Sir William Watson (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 
Society 46: 160) states that Tradescant’s Garden is, except that 
of John Gerard, author of the “ Herbal,” probably the first bo- 
tanical garden in England. Watson listed a few of the plants 
still surviving in 1749. (See Holborn.) 
UPTON (ENVIRONS OF LONDON) 
Hortus UPptroNneENsIs 
Established: 1762. Area: About 5 acres. 
Note: This garden was established by John Fothergill, a noted | 
physician in London from 1740 until his death in 1780. It was 
considered at the time as one of the most important in England. 
The ‘“‘ Green-House”’ contained “‘ upwards of 3400 distinct species 
of exotics” (Lettsom, Memoirs of Fothergill, p. 39). In the 
open “ about 3000 distinct species of plants and shrubs.” In co- 
operation with others Fothergill sent a collector to Africa, and 
secured plants “from all parts of the world.’ Many American 
trees he secured from the nursery of one Gray, who, with Peter 
Collinson, Mark Catesby, and other collectors, had the first nursery 
in England that specialized in North American trees and other 
plants. Hortus Uptonensis, located about four miles east of the 
boundary of the county of London, was gradually abandoned after 
the death of Fothergill. 
WISLEY 
RoyAL HortTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS 
Wisley, Ripley, Surrey, England 
Established: 1904. Area: 60 acres. 
Directors (Superintendents) : 
1. S. T. Wright (1904-1914) 
