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JOHN GOODYER 



was afterward made Bishop of Bath and Wells, who alwaies used 

 this hearbe for his purge, after the said manner, as his man 

 affirmed.' ^ 



But the outstanding event of this year was the intro- 

 duction of the Jerusalem Artichoke to English gardens 



Mill-Mountain. 



and cookery, undoubtedly the result of a visit to the 

 London garden of John Franqueville. Of this garden we 

 are also able to give a list, but as Goodyer was there at 



' Ger. eviac. 560. For Goodyer's description of the plant, see p. 112. The 

 use of Honewort, as Corn Parsley was locally called in Hampshire, steeped 

 in beer to cure swellings of the check, was also duly recorded by him, and will 

 be a^ain referred to under 1625. 



