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deal with horticulture. The Great Herbal, 

 from the French, was first published in 1 5 1 6 ; 

 The Little Herbal, from the Latin, in 1525. 

 Gary's Book of the Properties of Herbs, and 

 Macer's Herbal were published about 1540; 

 Ascham's Little Herbal, 1550 ; Turner's Herbal, 

 1 55 I to 1568 ; Lyte's translation of Dodoens's 

 Herbal, 1578 ; John Gerard's Herbal in 1597 ; 

 John Parkinson's well - known book, Paradisi 

 in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, The Garden of 

 Pleasure, was published in 1629. His Herbal 

 or Theatre of Plants followed in 1640. Gerard 

 had a famous physic garden in Holborn, near 

 Ely Place, overlooking the Fleet. This was 

 one of the earliest of the botanical gardens 

 which reached such a high pitch of perfection 

 in the latter half of the seventeenth century, as, 

 for instance, the well-known Botanical Garden 

 at Oxford which was founded and presented to 

 the University by the Earl of Danby in 1632. 

 A botanical garden and museum was kept in 

 South Lambeth by John Tradescant. Isaac 

 Walton gives some particulars of the Tradescants. 

 The grandfather and father were gardeners to 

 Queen Elizabeth, the son to Charles I. The 

 father and son travelled over Europe and the 

 East in search of plants, and the son is said to 

 have travelled in Virginia for the same purpose. 

 His Catalogue was not published till 1662. 

 The collection formed by the Tradescants was 

 purchased by Mr. Ashmole, who gave it to 



