36 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 



Gerard mentions having planted Phillyrea serratain the Earl 

 of Essex's garden at Barn Elms. {Herbal, edit. 15ri7, p. 1210.) 

 Gough {Brit. Topog., p. (S\,) says, that, before the year 1597, 

 Gerard had 1000 different plants and trees in cultivation. 

 Tradescaiit is said by Gough to have been contemporary with 

 Gerard, but he appears rather to belong to the 1 7th century. 

 The only nursery which we read of as existing in the 16th cen- 

 tury is that of Corbet, otherwise called Poynter, the father of 

 Bishop Corbet, at Twickenham, mentioned by Sir Hugh Plat 

 and by Ben Jonson. Gerard says that " Richard Poynter was a 

 most cunning and curious grafter and planter of all manner of 

 rare plants at Twickenham." {Herb., 1597, p. 1269.) 



It is uncertain whether Raleigh brought over any hardy- 

 American trees or shrubs, though it is highly probable that 

 he did so, as he introduced the cherry tree into Ireland, and 

 his manor at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, is said to have been 

 magnificently embellished with woods and gardens. Coker, 

 author of a Survey of Dorsetshire, published in 1732, but which 

 appears to have been written in the time of James I., says that 

 Sir Walter Raleigh built in *'the parke" adjoining the old 

 castle '* a most fine house, which hee beautified with orchardes, 

 gardens, and groves of much varietie and great delight ; soe, that 

 whether that you consider the pleasantness of the seate, the 

 goodnesse of the soyle, or the other delicacies belonging unto 

 it, it rests unparalleled by anie in those parts.'' (p. 124.) 



The park of Sherborne, after the death of Sir Walter Raleigh, 

 came into the possession of the "Earls of Digby, one of whom 

 altered the house, and employed Brown to lay out the grounds. 

 The centre part of the former mansion, which was built by Sir 

 "Walter Raleigh, still exists, and bears his arms, and the date 

 1574 over the windows. In the park there is a grove, said to 

 have been planted by Sir AV alter, which still retains his name. 

 {Beauties of England, Sfc, Dorsetshire, p. 438.) 



We can state nothing respecting the introduction of foreign 

 trees into Scotland or Ireland during this century. 



The trees and shrubs introduced into England during the 

 16th century, and the persons by whom they were introduced, 

 cultivated, or recorded (the names of the latter being included in 

 parentheses), according to the Hortus Kewensis, are as follows : — 



1548. Xaurus nobilis Italy (Turner) 



»Spartium.7unccum S. of Eu. Lord Cobham 



ylmvgdalus communis Barbary (Turner) 



7-*unica G'ranatum S. of Eu. Syon Garden 



.^rmeniaca vulgaris Levant (Turner) 



Jasminum officinale East Indies (Turner) 



/Rosmarinus officinalis South of Europe (Turner) 



