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"Physick garden" division, and fifteen plants "for 

 pleasure." His list is very incomplete, to be sure; 

 but even so, it furnishes an idea, in these differing pro- 

 portions, of the change which even then was begin- 

 ning to show itself in garden fashion. 



Thirty-six years after the great Faradisus had been 

 issued, John Rea's ambitious gardening work was pub- 

 lished. In this there is a detailed description of the 

 garden plants of his time, 1665; and he runs the num- 

 ber of these up to nearly a hundred, with enough varie- 

 ties under each kind to multiply this several times. 



The century and a half following the publication of 

 this painstaking effort of Rea's brought many more 

 flowers into the gardens, on both sides of the ocean, 

 than he names; yet Richard Bradley, in 1726, adds 

 only a dozen things to it, and one of these — the heart's- 

 ease — can only have been omitted by Rea through an 

 oversight, for it was most certainly in every well 

 stocked garden in his day. On the other hand, many 

 of Rea's plants are omitted by Bradley, these prob- 

 ably the least popular, or the ones whose popularity 

 was diminishing under the inrush of novelties. 



Checking the elder of these two works — Rea's and 

 Bradley's — ^by the younger — there is sixty-one years 

 between them — I find between fifty-five and sixty 

 kinds common to both, allowing a little latitude where 

 some doubt seems to linger around the question of 



