3i6 GARDEN LISTS 



Then follow recipes for making : 



Cerevisia Martia (March Beer) invigorating, most Jintritious, 

 very lasting, keeping a year. 



Ale, an agreeable drink, of the flavoiir of tuine, as ?ised by the 

 first nobility of England. 



Coys' Garden 1604-5. 



Several early printed references to plants grown by Mr. Coys 

 show that he was the most enterprising amateur grower of his day 

 of new and rare plants in England. His success with Primulas was 

 praised by LobeV who noted three new kinds at Stubbers, ' Prinmla 

 verisgeuiinoflore, alter o superior e Inteo, alteriinferiore viridi itmato', 

 two varieties of the ' Primula veris ex luteolo siibviridi altius laciniata 

 a7it fimbriata\ and ^Primida veris flore viridi umbellifera '. At that 

 time, e. 1604-5, Coys had in his garden : 



Allium silvestre perpusillum, luncifolium moschatum. Rec. from D. Leister - 



from Montpelier. 

 Bellis spinosa elatior et fructicosior Herbariorum. 

 Colchicum minimum tenuifolium Gallaecium. 

 Crocus syl. Byzantinus serotinus candidus. 

 Frittillaria nigra, Pyrenaea. 1605. 

 Gladiolus minimus, flowered in May. 

 Narcissus Cyprius luteus polyanthes, flore pleno. Dec. 1604. 



Introduced by Lete^ from Cyprus. 

 Parvulus Hyacinthus stellaris vernus. April 1605. 



Received from George le Seigneur. 

 Yuca gloriosa. July 1604. 



The English names in italics, taken from Gerard, are given in 

 the case of those plants which can be identified as having been 

 included in Gerard's garden list of 1599. The plants without 

 English names, were presumably not cultivated by Gerard. The 

 difficult task of the determination of the greater number of the 

 species was undertaken by Dr. Daydon Jackson who in the most 

 friendly way gave up a part of his Christmas holiday to the work. 



' 'Lc^^i, Stirpium adversaria noiia, altera pars. Lond. 1605. 



"^ Perhaps Dr. Edward Llster, c. 1556-1620. Physician to Queen Elizabeth. 



^ Nicholas Lete a London merchant 'greatly in love with rare and faire 

 flowers' traded in the Levant. In the Bodleian Library there is an Aaou/it 

 of his, dated 1601-3, to Richard Sandy for £,zo worth of drugs, including 

 .Salsaperiglia, Sassafras, Rebarbe, Licoris, and Agarick. There are notes on 

 the ailments of himself and his family in the same book. One of the symptoms 

 of his malady, recorded by his astrologer-physician, was that 'he picketh his 

 nose '. He died ' about a quarter of a year after '. MS. .\shm. iSi , f. 66 b. 



