8o JOHN GOODYER 



take anything of anybody soever. It was his constant 

 practice to give away trees, &c. ; but then he took care it 

 should only be to the poor and such as were in want, not 

 to others. He was near fourscore years of age, a comely, 

 neat, proper, upright man, and beloved and respected by 

 all sorts of people.' He planted {c. 1660) elms in the 

 Gravel Walk by Magdalen College ; ^ and elms on this 

 site are well known all over the world as an essential 

 feature in what was formerly one of the most popular 

 views in Oxford. 



In his old age he was one of the characters of Oxford, 

 but when Goodyer might have known him he had just 

 been recommended by Charles I for election to a Fellow- 

 ship on the ground that he had ' given ample proof of his 

 sober carriage, conformableness, and commendable abilities 

 in the way of his studies '. 



Among the younger men then up at Magdalen College 

 were the three contemporaries Browne, Stonehouse, and 

 Drope. William Browne, Demy 1644, was a native of 

 Oxford, who became ' one of the best botanists of his time, 

 and had a chief hand in the composure of a book entitled, 

 Catalogus Hovti Botanici Oxoniensis\ 8vo. Oxon. 1658; 

 Walter Stonehouse, Demy 1645, was the son of Goodyer's 

 friend the Rev. Walter Stonehouse of Darfield, whose 

 garden lists are preserved among the Goodyer papers ; 

 and Francis Drope, Demy 1645, was a most enthusiastic 

 lover of trees and author of A short and sure Guide in the 

 practice of raising and ordering Fruit-trees. 8vo. Oxford, 

 1672. And, in any account of the botanists of Magdalen 

 of this early period, should also be mentioned the unknown 

 writer of marginal notes in the Bodleian copy of Lyte's 

 Herbal. This book was successively in the possession of 



' Hearne, Diary. According to one account Hooper's Elms were replaced 

 by others in 1680, but, be that as it may, the (".ravel Walk elms, after forming 

 for more than two hundred years an incomparably beautiful setting to the grey 

 stone architecture of the Great Tower of Magdalen, were wantonly felled before 

 their time in 1916, when many who would have advocated their retention were 

 away at the War. 



