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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



Instances, such as the following, occur on almost every page : 

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

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

 very good friend." " The golden Mothwort or Cudweed 

 (Helichrysum) . . . being gathered before they be ripe or 

 withered remaine beautiful long time after, as my selfe did 

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

 Maiesties Counsell which were sent him . . . from Padua." 



GERARD. FROM TITLE-PAGE OF HIS " HERBAL," 1597. 



" 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 greatly dilighteth in strange plants, who very 



