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by him to Magdalen College. In addition to the copy 

 of the Plantar 2im Hist or ia mentioned above, and purchased 

 within a week of the death of Lobel, Goodyer owned five 

 other editions by the same author : one of these, the edition 

 of 1576, was a presentation copy from Lobel to Dr. Martin 

 Ramerus or Rhamneirus, a Licentiate of the Royal College 

 of Physicians. A copy of the Icones Stirpium with notes 

 by William Mount, and with some figures coloured, may 

 have been among Goodyer's first botany books as a boy. 

 We know that he could draw and that he painted in 

 water-colour. 



Goodyer's miscellaneous papers show that even while 

 he was occupied with the business of estate management, 

 or of the Courts, or in dealings with tithing officers, his 

 mind would always be turning to the plants which he had 

 seen in the gardens of his friends or had found on his 

 excursions. 



The earlier notes are scrappy, but of great historical 

 importance, for they place our knowledge of early English 

 gardening on a far surer basis than heretofore. The 

 notes become progressively more methodical until in 1621 

 their number and finish show that descriptive botany had 

 become the principal object of the author's life. Whether 

 Goodyer ever had any thoughts of publishing these 

 descriptions under his own name we do not know, but 

 of many he made both rough and fair copies : some of the 

 latter he handed over to his friend Dr. Thomas Johnson 

 for inclusion in the new edition of Gerard's Herbal to be 

 mentioned in 1633. 



His first gardening friends included Parkinson, Coys, 

 and Franqueville, who have often been mentioned in 

 histories of early gardening, but now for the first time 

 have we anything in the nature of lists of the plants 

 actually growing in their gardens. Last year when editing 

 the long list of plants grown by Walter Stonehouse in 1640 

 at Darfield in Yorkshire, it was pointed out that only three 

 earlier garden lists were then known, those of the Holborn 



