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the choisest fruits this kingdom yields ' ^ and 'who from John 

 Tradescant and all others that have good fruit hath stored 

 himself with the best only, and he can sufficiently furnish 

 any '.^ Parkinson mentions the ' Great bearing cherry of 

 Master Millen in 1629 '. His name and address also occur 

 on the back of a letter of 1631.^ 



Goodyer's handwriting 



I63I 



In 1 63 1 Goodyer was living at Mapledurham. When 

 he moved, we do not know, but both his letters and notes 

 show that his thoughts were in the planting of a new 

 garden. He journeyed to London and possibly to Oxford, 

 and on 2 7 May appears to have been at ' Godlemen in 

 Surrey ' (Godalming). He would have had a good reason 

 for visiting Oxford, for his favourite nephew Edmund 

 Yalden had gone up to Magdalen College as a Demy in 

 1 630. A note of a botanical station near Oxford was supplied 

 him by Leonard Buckner,^ a London apothecary, and one 



^ Johnson, 1633, and Parkinson, 1629, p. 575. ^ MS. f. 133. 



^ Leonard Buckner's discoveries are printed by Johnson. ' In a field joyning 

 Witney Parke' in 1632 he found Stachys germanica L., and 'in a bog upon 

 a common by the Beacon hill neere Cumner-wood in the end of August 1632*, 

 three miles beyond Oxford, a little on this side of Eynsham ferry, he found the 

 Horse-taile Coralline. Ger. eviac. 1 115. This last plant has been variously 

 regarded as Eqnisetmn sylvaticiim L., Druce, Flora Oxford, p. 356, and as 

 CJiara hispida L., Druce, Flora Berks, xcix. In the case of the Stachys, 

 Goodyer's note antedates the date printed, and generally quoted from Johnson, 

 by a year and a month. 



Leonard's excursions near Oxford suggest kinship with Dr. Thomas Buckner, 

 Fellow of Magdalen, 161 8-31. 



