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Hollar's striking portraits of the Tradescants, are well 

 known. On their tomb, at Lambeth, the following lines 

 form part of the inscription: — 



These famous Antiquarians, that had heen 

 Both Gardeners to the rose and lily Queen, 

 Transplanted now themselves, sleep here; and when 

 Angels shall with their trumpets waken men, 

 And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise, 

 And change this Garden for a Paradise. 



In the Ashmolean Museum, is a portrait of the Son, in his 

 garden, with a spade in his hand. In Mr. Nichols's " Illus- 

 trations to Granger," consisting of seventy-five portraits, 

 appear those of the Tradescants, father and son. Smith also 

 engraved John Tradescant, with his son, and their monu- 

 ment, 1 793. Mr. Weston, in his Catalogue, fully describes 

 the Museum Tradescantium. Dr. Pulteney observes, that 

 " in a work devoted to the commemoration of Botanists, their 



you shall see it looke directly to the east, with the stalk bent lowe there- 

 unto, and as the sunne ariseth higher and higher, so the flower will likewise 

 ascend, and when the sunne is come into the meridian or noone poynt, 

 which is directly over it, then will it stand upright upon the stalke, and 

 looke directly upward, and as the sunne declineth, so will it likewise de- 

 cline, and at the sunne setting looke directly to the west only." 



His mention of another flower is attractive :— " Now for your Wall Gilli- 

 flower, it delighteth in hard rubbish, limy, and stony grounds, whence it 

 commeth they covet most to grow upon walls, pavements, and such like 

 barraine places. It may be sowen in any moneth or season, for it is a seed 

 of that hardness, that it makes no difference betwixt winter and summer, 

 but will flourish in both equally, and beareth his flowers all the yeere, 

 whence it comes that the husbandman preserves it most in his lee-garden, 

 for it is wondrous sweet, and affordeth much honey. It would be sowen in 

 very small quantity, for after it hath once taken roote, it will naturally of 

 itself overspread much ground, and hardly ever after be rooted out. It is of 

 itselfe of so exceeding a strong, and sweet smell, that it cannot be forced to 

 take any other, and therefore is ever preserved in its owne nature." 



