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not in the same geometrical position. The Saffron Garth is, 

 I think, undoubtedly in the walled garden between the Rectory 

 and the School Street. The measurements do not agree with the 

 existing garden, but the shape is the same and the Saffron Crocus 

 borders are still there. To the north of the Rectory and of the 

 walled garden is a large orchard, where the Saffron Crocus up till 

 lately also flourished and bordered the paths. . . . Our soil is very 

 light and most suited to bulbs.' 



The list of plants in Stonehouse's own hand was evidently 

 compiled at different times. The first list, in strict alphabetical 

 order, was completed on or shortly before the 37th of August, 1640. 

 The names are very clearly written : ten lines on a page, on 

 alternate lines for additions. The later entries are therefore readily 

 distinguishable. They are in blacker ink, and may with confidence 

 be referred to the next four years. Probably the greater number 

 of new plants was added in 1644. Stonehouse estimates that he 

 had 450 perennials in 1640, or 651 at the later date (probably 1644), 

 as well as 215 annuals and biennials raised from seed, making 866 

 in all. 



Then, no doubt, came the period of his persecution, banishment 

 and imprisonment. A pathetic little note tells us that in 1653 he 

 again visited his garden. It is in Latin and appears to mean that 

 of the 866 plants, ' Alas ! but few are there to-day, and I have no 

 hope of founding a new colony '. 



The lists enumerate 14 species from Virginia, 5 from Guinea, and 

 4 from New England, including Juglans, Terrae glandes, 'Maiz' 

 and Pepo. Sir David Prain informed me that he knew of no 

 earlier record of English garden plants from this last locality. 



The plant lists have been printed in extenso in the Gardeners^ 

 Chronicle for 15 May 1920 and three following numbers, and 

 reprinted with corrections.^ 



xiii. The Westminster Garden of Edward Morgan, 

 c. 1619-^. 1677. 



Edward Morgan, ' rei herbariae studiosus,' a Welshman, was one 

 of the Socii itiner antes who accompanied Johnson on his famous 

 excursion to North Wales in July 1639, and acted as interpreter.^ 

 He then made the acquaintance of Walter Stonehouse to whose 

 garden he contributed a plant of the Leopard's Bane of America 

 ' Doronicum Americanum majus ' (1640). Morgan had a garden at 



^ Gunther, Gm-den of the Rev. Walter Stofi-ehouse, 1920. 

 ^ Johnson, Alei-atrii Boianici pars altera, Lond. 1641. 



