150 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



1644. The most important of Johnson's friends and assistants 

 was John Goodyer. He noticed for the first time many native 

 plants, and his knowledge of botany must have been very 

 considerable from the way in which he is referred to by both 

 Johnson and Parkinson. Thomas Glynn and George Bowles 

 were two other collectors whose names should not be altogether 

 forgotten. 



Ralph Tuggy is another name not often remembered, and 

 yet, from frequent references to him, he must greatly have 

 helped the progress of gardening. Johnson mentions Tuggy 

 as if he was almost as well known as Parkinson or the Tra- 

 descants, and his garden at Westminster contained many 

 plants then very rare. He was especially famous for his pinks 

 and carnations, and auriculas, and it appears that his widow 

 kept up his garden after his death, which occurred before 1633. 

 Johnson described some eight hundred more plants than 

 Gerard, and added many woodcuts. The total number in the 

 completed Herbal was 2,717, and the number of pages in this 

 ponderous folio reached over 1,600. 



Between the first appearance of Gerard's Herbal and the 

 second edition, Parkinson had published his Paradisi in Sole 

 Paradisus Terrestris, the most popular gardening work of this 

 period. Although the medicinal properties are given a place in 

 it, as in all early books on plants, it is quite distinct in character 

 from these other Herbals. The title of the book is a play upon 

 his name, Park-in-Sun's Earthly Paradise, and the quaintness, 

 freshness, and originality of the title is characteristic of the 

 whole book. Parkinson has the power of inspiring his readers 

 with a love of flowers and a feeling for their beauty, and still, 

 after a lapse of centuries, no gardener could fail to be refreshed 

 and stimulated in his art by a perusal of the Earthly Paradise. 1 

 Parkinson was born in 1567, and, like all the botanists already 

 mentioned, was an apothecary. He lived in London, and was 

 possessed of an excellent garden, and that he had also travelled 

 appears from his works. He was " apothecary to King James," 

 and was made " Botanicus Regius Primarius " by Charles I. 

 He dedicated his Paradise to Queen Henrietta Maria. The 



1 The feelings that the book might inspire in children is very prettily 

 shown in Mary's Meadow, by Juliana Horatia Ewing. 



