124 C H A P T E R 9« 
Among the many who promoted 
rard's work by their communications, I 
rauft not omit the names of Thomds He^-. 
KETH, of Laitcafiire ; Thomas Edwards, 
apothecary, at Exeter ; both fiiilled in the 
koowledge of EngHih plants. 
y antes Garet, of London y apothecary, 
a curious fearcher of fimples/* He was 
the correfpondent of Clusius, to whom 
he communicated a great number of natu« 
ral curiofities, particularly of exotic growth, 
and i3 mentioned with great refpeft by that 
learned foreigner, in numerous places of his 
Ljihri Exotico?^um» He feems to have been 
one of the principal cultivators of tulips, 
which he propagated by feeds and bulbs 
for twenty years, every feafon bringing forth^ 
as Gerard obferves, new plants of fun- 
dry colours not before feen, all which tc? 
defcribe particularly, v/ere to roll Sifi^ 
phtus> ilonc, or number the fands." 
I find three perfons of the fame name, 
ya?nes Garet the flither, and James i\\Q 
fon, and Peter, as I fuppofe, the brother of 
James the elder. Parkinson, fpeaking 
probably of the lail, informs us, that he 
was originally a druggifi: in Lime-ftreet. 
