on the Consolations of Boethius. We are not very likely to 

 discover his portrait. Nor that of the following: — 



Henry Daniel, a Dominican friar, said to be well skilled 

 in the natural philosophy and physic of his time, left a ma- 

 nuscript inscribed Aaron Danielis. He therein treats De re 

 Herbaria, de Arboribus, Fructibus, &c. He flourished about 

 the year 1379. — N. B. I have copied this article from Dr. 

 Pulteney's Sketches, vol. 1, page 23.* 



I believe there are no Portraits engraved, nor perhaps yet 

 discovered, of the following sixty-nine persons; at least I 

 know of none : — 



Richard Arnolde, who in his Chronicle, printed in 1502, 

 has a chapter on " The crafte of graffynge, and plantyne, 

 and alterynge of fruyts, as well in colours, as in taste." The 



* Dr. Pulteney gives a list of several manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 

 the writers of which are unknown, and the dates not precisely determined, 

 but supposed to have been written, if not prior to the invention of printing, 

 at least before the introduction of that art into England. I select the two 

 following . — 



No. 2543. De Arboribus, Aromatis, et Floribus. 



No. 2562. Glossarium Latin o-anglicum Arborum, Fructuum, Frugam, &c. 



And he states the following from Bib. S. Petri Cant: — 



No. 1695. Notabilia de Vegetabilibus, et Plantis. 



Dr. Pulteney observes, that the above list might have been considerably 

 extended, but that it would have unnecessarily swelled the article he was 

 then writing. 



The Nouv. Diet. Hist, mentions a personage whose attachment to his 

 garden, and one of whose motives for cultivating that garden, does not 

 deserve a notice: — " Attale III. Roi de Pergame, fils de Stratonice, soulla 

 la throne en repandant le sang de ses amis et de ses parens. II abandonna 

 ensuite le soin de ses affaires pour s'occupcr entirement de sorijardin. II y 

 cultivoit des poisons, tels que l'aconit ct la cigue, qu'il envoyoit quelque fois 

 en present a ses amis. II mourut 133 ans avant Jesus Christ." 



