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name of Mrs. Thomazhi Tunstal, a lady 
whom he celebrates, not only for her tafte 
in cultivating a garden which was well 
llored with exotics, but for her knowledge 
of EnglifJo botany, and her difcoveries of fe- 
vera! curious vegetables found about Ingle^ 
borough Hill, in hancajlnre \ which were not 
knov/n before to grow in RitglancL Whe-- 
ther £he was allied to Sir yohn Tunstal, 
noticed in the account of Johnson^ I can- 
not afcertain^ 
Befides the names of Bowles, Good- 
YER, Tradescant, and others, men- 
tioned by Johnson, v/e meet with the 
foli^v/i ng, as having contributed to th^ 
general ftock, yohi Newton, forgeon, 
at Colliiony SomerfetJIjire Dr. Antony Sad- 
ler, phyfician at Exeter y Mr. William 
Quick, apothecary, London y Mr. Brad- 
SHAUGPi, of TorkJJnre y Mr. Silliard, of 
Dublin^ and divers others'*, 
* Parkinson is commemorated for his botanical 
labours by Plumier, in having his Jiame applied to a 
'decandrous trcCj a native of the Caribhec i Hands, and of 
the adjacent continent, well known in the Englifh ftovee, 
and called in Ji-maica th^ jirufalcm thorn. 
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