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garden and mufeum, to raife a curiofity th^t 
was eminently ufeful to the progrefs and 
improvement of natural hiftory in generaL 
John Trade SCANT was by birth a 
Dutch man, as v/e are informed by Ai 
Wood. On what occafion, and at what 
period, he came into E,7tgla7idy is not precife- 
ly afcertained. Ke is faid to have been, for 
a confiderable time, in the fervice of Lyord 
Treafarer Salisbury and Lord Wooton. 
He travelled fevei:al years, and into various 
parts of Esiirope as far eaftward as into 
Rii/JJa, He was in a fleet that was fent 
as-ainfl the Al^erines in 1620, and. mention 
is made of his cclledring plants in Barbaryy 
and in the ifles of the Mediterranean. He 
is faid to have brought the tj^ifoUum Jlella^ 
inm Lhi. from the ifle of Fermentera ^ and 
his name frequently occurs in the fecond 
edition of Gerar D by Johnson ; in Par- 
kinson's Theatre of Plants," and in 
his Garden of Flowers," printed in 1656. 
But I coDjeclure that Tradescant was 
not redden t in Finojaiid in the time of Ge- 
rard himfelf, or knov/n to him. 
He appears hovvcver to have been efta- 
biiihed 
