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to be at that time the most remarkable in England for the 
number and variety of its productions. This garden appears by 
the old maps to have been situated on the brow of the hill -be- 
tween what is now Ely Place, and what was formerly the Fleet 
River, but what is now called Field Lane, the stream being 
arched over. Gerard appears to have practised as a surgeon 
and apothecary, supplying his prescriptions from his garden. 
He was the author of several works, the principal of which are 
his Catalogue and his Herbal. 'The first edition of the former is 
dedicated to Lord Burleigh, and the second to Sir Walter 
Raleigh. It enumerates nearly 1100 sorts of plants, of foreign 
and domestic growth, all of which (as attested by L’Obel) were 
to be found in his garden in Holborn. Gerard died about the 
year 1607, highly respected by the college of physicians and by 
all his contemporaries. 
Supsect. 3. Ofthe Foreign Trees and Shrubs introduced into Britain 
in the 17th Century. 
TRADESCANT appears to have come to England towards the 
end of the preceding century. Wood says he was a Dutchman ; 
that he was in the service of Lord Treasurer Salisbury, Lord 
Wootton, and the Duke of Buckingham; and that, about 1629, 
he obtained the title of gardener to Charles I. He is said to 
have travelled over a great part of Europe, and to have gone into 
Barbary, Greece, Egypt, and other Eastern countries, in quest 
of plants and natural curiosities. He had a garden at Lambeth, 
and a museum there; in the former of which he cultivated many 
plants, and, as appears by a Catalogue published by his son, in 
1656, some trees and shrubs. ‘Tradescant’s garden and mu- 
seum were probably not commenced till after he had retired 
from the service of private noblemen, and entered into that of 
the king, which would give its origin about 1630. ‘Trades- 
cant’s son travelled in Virginia, and introduced various new 
plants from that country. ‘Iradescant, senior, died about 1652. 
Tradescant’s garden was visited, in 1749, by Dr. Mitchell 
and Dr. (afterwards Sir) William Watson, F.R.S.; but at that 
distant period they found very few trees. _ Among these, how- 
ever, were Schubértza disticha, Robinza Pseud-Acacia; Rhamnus 
catharticus, about 20 ft. high, and nearly a foot in diameter; an 
Aristolochia, and several mulberry trees. (Phil. Trans. Abr., 
x. 740.) These were but afew of the species of trees cultivated 
by Tradescant; as appears by the Catalogue published by 
his son, and by the list at the end of this section. 
From a memorandum by Di. Gray, in his copy of the Hort 
Regii Hamptoniensis, &c., now in the British Museum, we learn 
that many of the plants enumerated in that catalogue were 
