328 TRADESCANT 



X. The Garden Lists of John Tradescant, the Elder, 



d. 1638. 

 The Garden of Lord Salisbury at Hatfield, 161 1. 

 In 161 1 Tradescant was in the service of Lord Salisbury, who 

 had planted an extensive vineyard at Hatfield on a property which 

 had been given to him in exchange for Theobalds by James I in 

 1607. The site was on the north side of the River Lea, on a piece 

 of ground sloping to the south, hedged in with privet and sweet briar. 

 The vineyard had been stocked with some 30,000 vines sent by 

 Mme. de la Broderie, wife of the French ambassador, 500 vines 

 from the Queen of France, and the few Muscats mentioned below. 

 In the winter of 161 1 Cecil commissioned Tradescant to plant his 

 o-arden with a selection of good fruit trees and flowers then in 

 cultivation by the best Dutch and French growers. The original 

 bills, still preserved at Hatfield, contain several items of horti- 

 cultural interest. 



John Tradescant his bill for Routes flowers, seedes, trees and 



plants by him bought for my Lo: [the first Earl of Salisbury]} 



J and J January, 1611. 



Roots of flowers, of Roases and shrubs of Strang and rare bought at Leyden 

 in Holland £3 o o. 



Number. Price. Total. 



£ s. d. 



Anemones (C. Helin of Harlem) 5 o 



Aprycoke, The whit i 6j. 6 



„ (the archedukes gardener called Peere Vj'ens) lo 2S. 20 



Arbor vita trees (C Helin) 2 dd. i 



[CherriesJ 



Rathe ripe cherry trees (C. Helin) 32 4J. 6 8 



Archedukes cherye (prob. of Peere Vyens) 12 \s. 12 



Biggandres (Robyns) 24 2s. 200 



Boores cherye, an excedyng greatt cherye (Harlem) i 120 



Currants Great Blacke (Harlem) 

 „ Great red (C. Helin) 



[Cypress] Sypris trees (1 Robyns) ^ 



Echatega, double (John Jokkat) 



Frittelarias (C. Helin) 



Fyg trees, Whit (Kobyns) 



Genista hispayca (Parrys) 



Gillirtowers, Dubble whit stok | /ii^obvns) 

 ,, Other ) 



Irys calsedonye John Jokkat 1 



„ susyana >> 



Martygon pompone blanche ,, 



,, pompong orang coller ,, 



Medlar, Great M. of Naples (Brussels) 2 2s. 6d. 5 o 



' Abstracted from the History of Gardenino;, 1S95, by the Hon. Alicia Amherst 

 to whom I am also indebted for the loan of the portrait blocks of Lobel and 

 Parkinson. The items have been arranged in alphabetical order. 



"^ Tradescant's son introduced the American Cypress from Virginia. 



