116 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Pleasant Flowers, in 1629. Parkinson was herbalist to the 

 ill-fated King Charles I.', and his book is dedicated to the Queen 

 Henrietta Maria at this date, as indeed long before it ; gardening 

 was considered as belonging to the housewife's department or 

 charge ; hence we find that not only Gerarde and Parkinson, but 

 many earlier authors, make very conciliatory remarks about ladies 

 in their works. 



There is a sparkling freshness and originality about 

 Parkinson's work, and it must always find a corner in the 

 garden library. The late Mrs. Ewing pays a charming tribute 

 to its worth in a book for children called "Mary's Meadow," 

 which is itself full of garden lore. 



Parkinson was an herbalist and apothecary, who received 

 Royal Patronage from James L, and Charles I. made him 

 "Botanicus Regius Primarius." The Tradescants were active 

 collectors and gardeners of this epoch. John Tradescant (father) 

 was gardener to the first Lord Salisbury, and there is a manu- 

 script at Hatfield enumerating purchases made in Holland and 

 Paris for his employer's garden. The date is 1611. 



The Tradescants (grandsire, father, and son) had a house and 

 museum of curiosities, and a garden at Lambeth, of which the 

 remains were extant in 1749 (Phil. Trans., vol. 46, p. 160). 

 "When the son died in 1662 he left the museum, &c, to Mr. 

 Elias Ashmole, who bequeathed it to the University at Oxford, 

 where it in part now exists as the Ashmolean Museum. The 

 Tradescants were Dutch, the grandsire coining over in James I.'s 

 time, and though they did not contribute any works to our 

 garden literature directly, they undoubtedly exerted a great 

 influence on the gardening art of their time. 



1653. Ralph Austen published "A Treatise on Fruit Trees" 

 at Oxford that went through several editions ; and in the same 

 year Dr. John P>eale also produced at Oxford " A Treatise on 

 Fruit Trees for Cider and Perry," and four years later (1657) he 

 published, in London, " The Hereford Orchards as a Pattern for 

 the whole of England." 



1658. We come to John Evelyn, who translated " The French 

 Gardiner," followed in 1664 by the immortal " Sylva," to which 

 is annexed " Pomona," concerning Fruit Trees ; and his 

 " Kalendarium Hortense " ; and in 16G6 the " Kalendarium 

 Bortense," or "The Gardener's Almanac," was published 



