148 THE OLD ENGLISH HERBALS 



kind, Parkinson tells us, " is found in divers places of our owne 

 Countrey as neere Micham about eight miles from London; " 

 also in Lancashire, " from whence I received a plant, which 

 perished, but was found by the industrie of a worthy Gentle- 

 woman dwelling in those parts called Mistresse Thomasin Tunstall, 

 a great lover of these delights. The other was sent me by my 

 especial! good friend John Tradescant, who brought it among 

 other dainty plants from beyond the seas, and imparted thereof 

 a root to me." Of clematis and candytufts, honeysuckles and 

 jasmine. Of double-flowered cherries, apples and peaches. 

 " The beautiful shew of these three sorts of flowers," he says, 

 " hath made me to insert them into this garden, in that for their 

 worthinesse I am unwilling to bee without them, although the 

 rest of their kindes I have transferred into the Orchard, where 

 among other fruit trees they shall be remembered : for all these 

 here set downe seldome or never beare any fruite, and therefore 

 more fit for a Garden of flowers then an Orchard of fruite. These 

 trees be very fit to be set by Arbours." 



In this garden of pleasant flowers we find also many fragrant 

 herbs. " After all these faire and sweete flowers," says Parkin- 

 son, " I must adde a few sweete herbes, both to accomplish 

 this Garden, and to please your senses, by placing them in your 

 Nosegay es, or elsewhere as you list. And although I bring them 

 in the end or last place, yet they are not of the least account." 

 He writes first of rosemary, the common, the gilded, the broad- 

 leaved and the double-flowered. Of rosemary he tells us : 

 " This common Rosemary is so well knowne through all our 

 Land, being in every woman's garden, that it were sufficient 

 but to name it as an ornament among other sweete herbes and 

 flowers in our Garden. It is well observed, as well in this our 

 Land (where it hath been planted in Noblemen's, and great 

 men's gardens against brick wals, and there continued long) 

 as beyond the Seas, in the naturall places where it groweth, 

 that it riseth up in time unto a very great height, with a great 

 and woody stemme (of that compasse that being clouen out 

 into thin boards it hath served to make lutes, or such like 



