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probably the first botanical garden in England.” Watson gives a 
list of a few plants still surviving in 1749. While Gerard’s 
garden may have antedated that of Tradescant, the statement of 
Singer (Notes and Querries, 5: 387. 1852) that “it was to the 
Tradescants we owe the foundation of the first Museum of Curi- 
osities of Nature and Art” is doubtless correct. The collection 
To Fobn Tradefcant the youn- 
ger, furviving. 

cAnagr: : 
Toun TRrapescant- 
(Cannot hide Arts. 
_ HEire of thy Fathers goods, and his good parts, 
Which both preferveft, & augment ft his ftore, 
Tracing th’ ingenvous fteps he trod before: _ 
Proceed as thou begin’ft, and win thofe hearts, 
With gentle curt’fie, which admir'd his Arts. 
Whilft thou conceal’ ft thine own, & do'ft deplore 
Thy want, compar’d with his, thou fhew’ft them 
_.Modefty clouds not worth;but hate diverts, (more. 
a dae thal ae envy, ARTS he CANNOT. 

H oe 
That has then, Light through every chink is 



Nagas has ogo, peffimns Potta, 
Plantarum tamen, optimique amics 
——« Nufquam peffinsus aftimater, cgi. 
Theolegus fervss natus. 


Fic. 9. Anagram, in English, on the name John Tradescant (the son). 
Fac simile reproduction from the Musaeum Tradescantianum, London, 
1656. 
