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,1 IflSTURV OF GAIWENING IN EXGLAXD. 



InstaiKH's, such as the following, occur on almost every page : — 

 " Ciprepediuni Ladies' Slipper. I have a plant thereof in my 

 garden which I received from Mr. Garret, Apothecary, my 

 ver\- good friend." " The golden Mothwort or Cudweed 

 {Hclichrysiini) . . . being gathered before they be ripe or 

 withered remainc beautiful long time after, as my selfe did 

 see in tlic hands of Mr. Wade one of the Clerks of her 

 Maiesties Counscll which were sent him . . . from Padua."' 



GEKAKD. KKOM TlTLE-l'AGE OF HIS " HERBAL," I597. 



"The finger Hart's tongue ... I found in the garden of Master 

 Cranwick dwelling at Much-dunmow, in Essex, who gave me 

 a plant for my garden." The friends, such as these, who 

 assisted Gerard, are very numerous, and of most of them 

 nothing further is known than the few words in which Gerard 

 introduces them, such as "a Learned Merchant of London. 

 Mr. James Cole, a louer of plants and very skillful in the 

 knowledge of them." " Mr. Garth, a worshipfull gentleman, 

 and one that greatl}- dilightcth in strange plants, who very 



