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names of the fruits in italics in the right-hand column alongside 

 Tradescant's own fruit catalogue of 1634. See p. 343. 



In 1618 Tradescant was engaged in 'A Voiag of ambasad ' to 

 Russia with Sir Dudlie Diggs,^ and had, botanically speaking, 

 a most successful campaign. After rounding the North Cape on 

 6th July, he landed at Archangel on the i6th, and finding a ' bery 

 growing lowe ' (the yellow Cranberry), which was eaten by the 

 people * for a medsin against the skurbi ', he proceeded forthwith to 

 dry ' sume of the beryes to get seed whearof ' he ' sent par to Robiens 

 of Parris '. 



On 20th July he had ' one of the Emporer's boats to cari him from 

 Hand to Hand to see what things growe upon them', and there he 

 found ' pinks growing natturall of the best sort we have heere in 

 Ingland, withe the eges of the leaves deeplie cut or jaged very 

 finely ', also the Rosa Muscovita that he grew in his Lambeth 

 garden later. None of the other plants observed by him on the 

 Rose Island or elsewhere can be proved to have been introduced to 

 western horticulture by him at this time. 



In 1637 Tradescant was botanising in the Island of Rhe, where 

 he went as a member of the Duke of Buckingham's expedition,' 

 and whence he obtained the 'greatest Sea Stocke Gilloflower' 

 {Matthiola siimata). 



Lambeth Garden, 1629-33. 



Thanks to Goodyer and Ashmole, we have unexpectedly full 

 notes of the plants that the elder Tradescant grew in his garden at 

 Lambeth from 1629 onwards. He appears to have kept notes of 

 additions to the garden on a few blank pages at the end of his copy 

 of Parkinson's Paradises, printed in 1629. This copy was acquired 

 by Ashmole, who also wrote in it, and it has recently been added 

 to the Bodleian collections at a cost of £%'6.^ 



^ MS. Ashmole 824. 



"^ A MS. account of this adventure is in MS. Ashmole 824, ff. 187-192, imme- 

 diately after Tradescant's autograph account of the Russian Expedition, so that 

 it may also have belonged to him. 



^ The volume has been described in the Bodleian Quarterly Record and in 

 greater detail by Mr. Boulger in A seventeenth-century Botanist Friendship, 

 J. Bot. 191 8, p. 197. There is stated the evidence for the identification of the 

 MS. additions as the work of Tradescant and Ashmole, but the quotations from 

 them leave much to be desired in point of accuracy, t's are often transcribed as 

 /'s,_^ as q, 16 as i 6, &c. It should be mentioned that the entry of Elias Ashmole's 

 monogram-signature in the body of the book is dated 1680. 



