iRKS c^ GAR 



ilk, wi 



cither side, sv. 

 near the front, Ui 

 id that a regiment -c it 



u: spiderwort or Tradescantia i 

 ted to London gardens, not only because it 



uiihstand -ount of smoke and bad air, 



jse of its as .1 with the famous garden in 



Lambeth, w) as first grown. Parkinson, in 1629, 



gives the histor) duction of the plant. 



*'TheS;-- ■-- - ''- ' '- -nd 



for it th' ul 



'■leties, 



J 



and lasti^ Duke or Buckv , who first 



received i: ci a triv^na, that brought it oui of Virginia, 

 thinking it to bee the Silke Grasse that groweth there, 

 and hath imparted hereof, as of many other things, 

 both .!id others." ''Unto this plant I confess I 



first imposed the name . . ill some can finde 



. ,.,,-, , , . ,. T 4,.:^. . itinue '. . . John 



Courageous as 

 .slants, Parkinson 

 cuni' not beenc any tryall made of the 



p- • -'?'." Luckily no one has dis- 



[ ce of a name, and his friend's 



memory preserved. The plant is not confined 



-.,• V: ' .u - : r. • ■■-. &■■ Wild West, 



, .dagX^KUMxaaw, 3^p«-:3g, ji^og^aXSMt states. 



