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in a short time, by small cost and little labour. Also 

 discovering some dangerous errors both in the 

 Theory and Practice of the Art of planting Fruit 

 Trees. With the alimental and physical use of 

 Fruits. Together with the spiritual use of an Or- 

 chard. Held forth in divers similitudes between na- 

 tural and spiritual Fruit Trees, according to Scrip- 

 ture and experience. By RALPH AUSTEN, Prac- 

 tiser in the Art of Planting. Oxford, 4to. Again in 

 1662, and 1667. 



1654. The Blood of the Grapes. By— WHITAKER. 8vo: 



The Countryman's Recreation, or the Art of Plant-, 

 ing, Graffeing and Gardening. In three books. Lon- 

 don. 8vo. 



JOHN TRADESCANT, was bom in Holland. Parkinson 

 mentions his having travelled several years into various parts 

 of Europe. He was in Russia, and accompanied the fleet sent 

 against the Algerines in 1620, and collected on that occasion 

 plants in Rarbary, and the isles in the Mediterranean. His 

 name is frequently mentioned by Johnson and Parkinson, 

 Pultney conjectures that he was unknown to Gerarde, or was 

 not in England at that time. He was Gardener in succession 

 toRdbert, Earl of Salisbury (Lord Treasurer of England,) Lord 

 Wotton, at Canterbury, and the Duke of Buckingham.* He 

 was also Gardener to Queen Elizabeth, as his father was be- 

 fore him.f He settled in England, and founded his Garden at 

 Lambeth. About 1629, he was appointed Gardener to Charles 

 the L — He died about 1652, — His son John, who followed the 

 same trade as his father, made a voyage in pursuit of Plants to 

 Virginia, and brought many new ones back with him. He 



f Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole, pf 152. f "Walton's complete Angler 

 by Hawkins. 5th Edit. p. 24. 



