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already known to be grown by them, and the highly interesting 

 lists of the gardens of William Coys of Stubbers in Essex and of 

 John Parkinson in Long Acre. Lastly, the mention of the name of 

 Richard Shanne has led to the rediscovery of his, the oldest garden 

 list of all that are still unprinted, in the British Museum. 



The Goodyer MSS. have thus provided a richer store of definite 

 horticultural facts relating to special English gardens, and dating 

 from the first half of the seventeenth century, than any that has yet 

 been published. To this material we have added a (ew other 

 contemporary notes and lists, not previously published, which we 

 came across when searching for matter relating to the early annals 

 of English horticulture. 



i. Oxford and Winchester Gardens, 1570-2. 

 The following notes of plants growing in gardens in Oxford and 

 Winchester are written by a sixteenth-century botanist in his copy of 

 Du Pinet's Historia Plantaritm, now in the library of the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum.^ When no locality is men- 

 tioned, we provisionally assume the garden to have been in or near 

 W'inchester. In one case only is another county mentioned : the 

 Olive, 'Olea sativa', p. 81, 'at belnys nothers in Suffolk (that is not 

 wild) ', showing that in spite of Tacitus's adverse opinion of our 

 climate the olive was being grown in England a full quarter of 

 a century before the date of Gerard's garden list. We have sug- 

 gested that the writer may have been Dr. Walter Bayley of New 

 College, p. 235. 



Henry Crosse's Oxford Garden, 1570. 

 The friend of the unnamrd botanist may be identified with 

 Henry Crosse, Bedell of Theology, who was Registrar of the 

 University from 1566 to 1570. His house and garden are of great 

 historic interest, because there in after years (1654-68) Robert 

 Boyle lodged, had his laboratory, and invented his famous air- 

 pump.^ There on the south side of the High Street, and not far 

 from the quarter of the ancient Apothecaries in Oxford, Henry 

 Crosse cultivated simples which may have been of value to his 

 successor (and ? descendant), Crosse the apothecary,^ whose drugs 



* See p. 235. 



* An engraving of the front of Crosse's house is reproduced in Gunther, Early 

 Science in Oxford, 1920, p. li. 



^ Perhaps we owe the first evidence of the Lily of the Valley as an Oxford- 

 shire plant to Crosse. ' Lilly of ye Vallics, Crosse, ye Apothecarie, had a basket 

 full of ye flower. They grow about Siokenchurch.' John Ward's Diary, 1665. 

 (Information from Sir D'Arcy Power.) The first />rintc(i ^ record" for the Lily 

 of the Valley in Oxfordshire is ' Blucksionc, 1746'. 



