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Barnaby Googe's "Four Books of Husbandry," col- 

 lected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, "Newly Eng- 

 lished and increased by Barnaby Googe" (1577); 

 William Lawson's "A New Orchard and Garden" 

 (1618); Francis Bacon's "Essay on Gardening" 

 (1625); and John Parkinson's "Paradisi in Sole, 

 Paradisus Terrestris" (1629). 



Ralph Tuggie, or Tuggy, so often spoken of by 

 Parkinson, had a fine show garden at Westminster, 

 where he specialized in carnations and gilliflowers. 

 After his death his widow, "Mistress Tuggie," kept 

 it up. 



Another flower enthusiast was the Earl of Salis- 

 bury, who placed his splendid garden at Hatfield 

 under the care of John Tradescant, the first of a 

 noted family of horticulturists. John Tradescant 

 also had a garden of his own in South Lambeth, "the 

 finest in England" every one called it. Here 

 Tradescant introduced the acacia; the lilac, called 

 in those days the "Blue Pipe Flower"; and, if we 

 may believe Parkinson, the pomegranate. Among 

 other novelties that attracted visitors to this show 

 garden he had the "Sable Flag," known also as the 

 "Marvel of Peru." 



Lord Zouche was another horticulturist of note. 

 His fine garden at Hackney contained plants that 



