Tradefcajit^ I'jy 
bliflied in Englandy and his garden founded 
at Lambeth; about the year 1629 he ob- 
tained the title of gardener to Charles L 
Tradescant was a man of extraordinary 
curiofity, arid the firft in this country, who 
made any confiderable colledlion of the fub- 
jedls of natural hiftory. He had a fon of the 
fame name, who took a voyage to Virginia^ 
from whence he returned with many nev^ 
plants. They were the mieans of introduc- 
ing a variety of curious fpecies into this 
kingdom ; feveral of v/hich bore their name, 
T'radejcanfs Spiderwort, Tradefcanfs After y 
are well known to this day^ and Linn-^us 
has immortalized them amiong the Bota- 
nifts, by making a new genus, under their 
name, of the Spide?'worty which had before 
been called Rphenuron . His Mufeum, called 
^radejcanf% Ark, attrafted the curiofity of 
the age, and v/as much frequented by the 
great, by v/hofe means it was alfo much 
enlarged, as appears by the lift of his bene* 
faftors, printed at the end of " his Museum 
T R A D E s CANTi A N u M among whom^ 
after the names of the king and queen, are 
found thofe of many of the firft nobility. 
This fmaU volume, the author entitled 
Vol. L N Museum 
