GARDEN AT DROXFORD 25 



The cultivation of the other, the Globe Artichoke, 

 appears to have spread through the southern counties of 

 England some half a century earlier, and the vegetable that 

 figured in legal documents in Goodyer's lifetime is more 

 likely to have been the Globe than the Jerusalem Artichoke. 

 For in one of the Bodleian charters relating to Kent there 

 is a stipulation that the tenant of a garden in Wateringbury 

 is not to have ' the benefit of the Sparrow Grass beds and 

 Hartichoaks in the Garden'. An Hartichoke Garden, 

 44 perches in extent, was one of the features of Henrietta 

 Maria's garden at Wimbledon, and at the time of the 

 survey of 1649 contained plants and roots to the value of 

 £1 los} Her gardener probably grew both sorts. 



Every one who has hitherto written about Goodyer 

 appears to have tacitly assumed that he spent his early 

 manhood at Mapledurham, and that there his first experi- 

 ments in horticulture were made. This, however, was not 

 the case, for although he was no doubt often at Maple- 

 durham, his home and, what interests us more particularly 

 at present, his garden were at Droxford. It was Droxford, 

 therefore, that must have the honour of having been the 

 first village in England to produce the new Artichokes 

 in quantity. How completely all recollection of this important 

 horticultural event has disappeared, is proved by the fact 

 that even the modern ' discoverer ' of J ohn Goodyer, Canon 

 Vaughan, did not know that his botanical predecessor had 

 ever dwelt in Droxford. Yet Canon Vaughan, while Rector 

 of that parish, when engaged in researches into the forgotten 

 details of Izaak Walton's life there, passed the history of 

 Droxford through a hair sieve. But then Hampshire 

 is a forgetful county. Do not the lives of Walton, of 

 Goodyer, of Gibbon, and above all, of Jane Austen 

 show it ? 



The papers that have been reposing for the last two and 

 a half centuries in the manuscript room of Magdalen are 

 evidence that Goodyer lived and gardened at Droxford, 



^ Archaeologia, vol. x. 



