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Pennie, of London, Doctor of Physic, of famous memorie and 

 a second Dioscorides for his singular knowledge of Plants, . . . 

 lately deceased . . . whose death myself and many others do 

 greatly bewail." Johnson refers to him in the same way: "Of 

 famous memorie, a good physician and skilfuU Herbalist." He 

 was the introducer of several plants, and was the first to find 

 some of our native species. Clusius named Hyperium balearicum 

 " Pennaei " after him, as he brought it first from Majorca. 

 Geranium tuberosum was also called after him ; this plant 

 was brought to England by Turner, who " bestowed it on 

 Dr. Penny," from whom Clusius received it. 



Other writers on gardening, of about this time, have been 

 quoted already ; but little is known of their lives, beyond 

 what can be gathered from their works. \\'illiam Lawson. 

 who treats of orchards and fruit-trees, was a north-countryman, 

 and wrote from his own experience. Thomas Hill, or Didymus 

 Mountain, as he sometimes styled himself, published several 

 works, which he did not profess to have composed, but 

 "gathered out of the best approved writers of gardening, 

 Husbandrie, and Physic." * Of some authors we know 

 not even the names. N. F., the writer of a good treatise on 

 fruit in 1608 and 1609, cannot be identified, nor do the initials 

 correspond to any of the many names quoted by other writers, 

 unless Fowle, mentioned by Gerard as the " skilful keeper " 

 of Queen Elizabeth's garden at St. James, and famous for the 

 musk melons he grew there, had a Christian name beginning 

 with N. 



* Gardener's Labyrinth, IJSI- 



