i6 JOHN GOODYER 



garden of Gerard (1596), of George Gibbes' garden at Bath 

 (1634), and of the Lambeth garden of the elder Tradescant 

 {1634). We are now able to add several other lists of 

 intermediate date which comprised the more novel plants 

 then being grown by horticulturists. 



The earliest of Goodyer's garden notes go back to the 

 year 1616, when he first gathered seeds of Astragalus 

 lusitanicus 'in the garden of my good friend Mr. John 

 Parkinson an Apothecarie of London Anno 1616' (f. 107), 

 and about the same time he noticed in the same garden 

 in Long Acre, Pisum arvense, which he called ' P. maculatum 

 Boelii ' and ' Ervilia silvestris Dodonaei ' {Lathyrus Ockrus). 

 The two former were no doubt two of the many new 

 plants introduced into English gardens by Guilhaume Boel 

 from Portugal and Spain in 1608. Parkinson has put it on 

 record that Boel ' gathered there about two hundred sorts 

 of seeds ... of all which seeds I had my part, and by 

 sowing them saw the faces of a great many excellent plants 

 but many of them came not to maturitie with me, and most 

 of the other whereof I gathered ripe seed one yeare, by 

 unkindly yeares that fell afterwards, have perished likewise '} 



Goodyer grew all three plants from seed in his own 

 garden at Droxford and described them in 162 1. 



The next garden of which we have his notes was that 

 of Wm. Coys - at Stubbers, North Okington, in Essex. 

 It was already old-established, and well known to Gerard 

 in 1597 for its exotic plants, and was visited by Lobel 

 during the early years of the seventeenth centur}'. The 

 latter botanist was moreover greatly impressed by Coys' 

 methods of brewing beer and ales. 



We are glad to think that this garden is not only still 

 in existence but is in the possession of the family which 

 succeeded the Co)ses at the end of the seventeenth century. 

 Through the curtesy of the present owner, Mr. Champion 

 Branfill Russell, I was privileged to make a pilgrimage 



' Parkinson, Thcatni)n, p. iioii. 

 * See p. 312. 



