34 JOHN GOODYER 



the name of ' Rubus repens fructu caesio ', was written in 

 September of this year, but the original MS., from which 

 Johnson's account was printed, is not now extant. It was 

 almost certainly taken from a Hampshire plant, but since 

 Goodyer omitted to mention the locality, he is not quoted as 

 a first recorder in Townsend's local FloJ'a, in which seventy 

 species of brambles are now distinguished : truly a thorny 

 subject ! Hampshire, perhaps with one exception, is stated 

 to be richest in brambles of all the counties in England. 



In his garden he raised some specimens of the forbidden 

 plant, tobacco. ' In anno 1619 I receaved the seedes hereof 

 from Mr. Anthony Uvedale ^ who that yere intended to 

 plante greate store thereof, and was hindered of his purpose 

 by a proclamation sett forth by Authoritie.' 



1620 



The next two years were perhaps the most eventful in 

 his career as a botanist. His excursions were rewarded 

 by the discovery of several other plants new to the British 

 flora, and many new plants imported from the south of 

 Europe throve so well at Droxford, that he was able to 

 give the first English description of them. 



On the 28th of April we find him making observations 

 on the Oak, Walnut, and Chestnut, being especially in- 



^ Anthony Uvedale, the Governor of Winchester Gaol, has already been 

 mentioned. The Uvedales were a Hampshire family who lived at Wickham, 

 and intermarried with the May family, living at Mayfield in Sussex. 



The name of Uvedale is well known in the annals of early horticulture. 

 Robert Uvedale (1642-1722) became master of the grammar school at Enfield, 

 Middlesex, about the year of Goodyer's death. He was ' a great lover of plants, 

 and, having an extraordinary art in managing them, is become master of the 

 greatest and choicest collection of exotic greens that is perhaps anywhere in this 

 land. His greens take up six or seven houses or roomsteads. His orange trees 

 and largest myrtles fill up his biggest house, and . . . those more nice and 

 curious plants that need closer keeping are in warmer rooms, and some of them 

 stoved when he thinks fit' (G'^^ciXi, Account of several Gardens near Lotidim^ 

 1691, Archaeologia, 1794, xii. 1S8). He was thus one of the earliest possessors 

 of hothouses in England. One of his former pupils is said to have brought him 

 from Mount Lebanon a cedar which was recently flourishing at Enfield. 



The copy of Turner's Herbal/, 1 568, in the Oxford Physic Garden, which 

 belonged to W. Cloioes in 1571, bears the signature oi'' Rob. Udall^ 



