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lucrative, and therefore (perhaps) was not much honoured. 

 Nevertheless Parkinson spent a long life, evidently with 

 satisfaction to himself and benefit to his countrymen. He 

 was assiduous in the collection and cultivation of new 

 plants, and tells us that he had spent nearly forty years in 

 "travell," or, as we now spell it, "travail," to acquire a 

 knowledge of plants; and, not satisfied with his own 

 researches, he contributed to the expenses of one botanist 

 to enable him to search some parts of Europe for new 

 plants, but was justly displeased with him, for he, " going," 

 as Parkinson says, "into Spaine, almost wholly on my 

 charge, brought me little else for my money than seeds of 

 Chiceling Peas." Yet he gave seeds to others ; so that " I 

 beate the bushe, and another catcheth and eateth the bird." 

 Then, also, as now and at all times, there were well-to-do 

 patrons of botany, merchants, and others who were of assist- 

 ance ; and Parkinson mentions some of those who helped 

 his collection : — 



" Mr. Nicholas Lete, a worthy merchant, and a lover of 

 all faire flowers." 



" Mr. John de Franqueville imparted to me many good 

 things." 



" Mr. John Gordier (Goodyer), a great lover and curious 

 searcher of plants, who hath found in our country many 

 plants not imagined to grow in our land. I wish there were 

 many more of his minde, that not hindering their affaires at 

 spaire times would be industrious to search out and know 

 what the ground bringeth forth where their occasions are 

 to be." (See Goodyera.) 



Altogether, Parkinson made a fine collection of flowers, 

 fruits, and herbs. Thus he says of roses : — " I have of roses 

 to furnish this garden thirty sorts at the least, every one 

 notably different from the other both in form, colour, and 

 smell;" while of tulips he had one hundred varieties ; and 



