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The plants were. purchased in France and Holland. Cornellis Helin lived at 

 Haarlem. ' Master Robyns ' was Jean Robin (i 550-1629), a famous botanist of 

 Paris and first curator of the ' Jardin des Plantes ' : several of his introductions 

 are mentioned by Gerard to whom he sent Apocynum rectum [Marsdenia 

 erecta), A. repens {Periploca graeca), Christophoriana {Actaea spicata, L.), 

 Crocus Ititeus, Epimedium alpinian, Tropaeolum majus, Lepidium sativum, L. 

 var.. Geranium lucidum, L., Datura Metel, L. ; ' peere vyens ' we have inter- 

 preted as the name of the Archduke's gardener ; the name of Vines is still 

 remembered in connexion with the Cambridge School of Botany, but in 

 Tradescant's bill it may denote a particular kind of vine. A re-examination 

 of the MS. might settle the question. Of Mr. John Jokkat we have no further 

 information. A few of the plants grown in a French garden of the period are 

 exquisitely depicted in an album recently exhibited in the S. Kensington 

 Museum for its beautiful late sixteenth-century binding. The volume contains 

 the name de Morogues, and may turn out to be a horticultural work of great 

 interest.^ The watermark of the paper is French, c. 1570. 



To this first period may be referred the interesting collection of 

 coloured drawings of fruit-trees, popularly known as • Tradescant's 

 Orchard', now in the Bodleian Library (MS. Ashmole 1461). It 

 has been suggested that the artist was the Alex. Marshall mentioned 

 in Musaewn Tradescantiamcm, p. 41. Among the names of the 

 fruits, written by some person who was evidently quite as illiterate 

 as the elder Tradescant, is an entry ' The Amber Plum which J.T. 

 as I take it brought out of France and groweth at Hatfeld '. This 

 shows that the writer of the names is not likely to have been 

 Tradescant himself. The collection of trees illustrated, which are 

 arranged in the order of fruiting, may have been similar to the 

 selection chosen by Tradescant for Lord Salisbury : the pictures 

 were certainly painted as a guide-book for the use of visitors to the 

 garden ; on the first page is written ' Heare by the figures you may 

 finde each fruite '. 



For the sake of facilitating comparison, we have printed the 



^ Since identified by Mr. S. Savage as the work of ' Jaques le Moyne dit de 

 Morgues Paintre ', author oi La Clef des Chatnps, 1586. 



