Gerard. 117 
years. He lived in Holborn^ where alio he 
had a \2iVgQphyJic garden of his own; which 
was probably the firft of the kind in Eng^ 
landy for the number and variety of its pro- 
dudtions. It fliould feem, that in his 
younger days he had taken a voyage into 
the Baltic, fince he mentions having feen 
the wild pines growing about Narva. 
Gerai^d appears alfo to have been fa- 
voured by the college of phyficians, and is 
highly extolled by Dr, Bulleyn. Both 
LcBEL, and Dr. Browne, phyfician to 
the queen, wrote, in Latin, commendatory 
letters to him, on the publication of his 
Herbal. He attained to -fuch eminence ia 
his profefRon, as to be chofen mafter of the 
company. He died about the year 1607^ 
There is a half fheet print of Gerard 
prefixed to his ov/n edition of the Her- 
*^ bal," done in the 53d year of his age, and 
a fmall oval one at the bottom of a full half 
.iheet frontifpiece, before Jo hi>i soil's edi,^ 
lion. _ 
The earlieft publication of Gerard 
^^as the tjx of his own garden iu Holborn, 
I 3 under 
