150 * A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
1644. The most important of Johnson’s friends and assistants 
was John Goodyer. He noticed for the first time many native 
plants, and his knowledge of botany must have been very 
considerable from the way in which he is referred to by both 
Johnson and Parkinson. Thomas Glynn and George Bowles 
were two other collectors whose names should not be altogether 
forgotten. 
Ralph Tuggy is another name not often remembered, and 
yet, from frequent references to him, he must greatly have 
helped the progress of gardening. Johnson mentions Tuggy 
as if he was almost as well known as Parkinson or the Tra- 
descants, and his garden at Westminster contained many 
plants then very rare. He was especially famous for his pinks 
and carnations, and auriculas, and it appears that his widow 
kept up his garden after his death, which occurred before 1633. 
Johnson described some eight hundred more plants than 
Gerard, and added many woodcuts. The total number in the 
completed Herbal was 2,717, and the number of pages in this 
ponderous folio reached over 1,600. 
Between the first appearance of Gerard’s Herbal and the 
second edition, Parkinson had published his Paradisi in Sole 
Paradisus Terrestris , the most popular gardening work of this 
period. Although the medicinal properties are given a place in 
it, as in all early books on plants, it is quite distinct in character 
from these other Herbals. The title of the book is a play upon 
his name, Park-in-Sun’s Earthly Paradise, and the quaintness, 
freshness, and originality of the title is characteristic of the 
whole book. Parkinson has the power of inspiring his readers 
with a love of flowers and a feeling for their beauty, and still, 
after a lapse of centuries, no gardener could fail to be refreshed 
and stimulated in his art by a perusal of the Earthly Paradise. 1 
Parkinson was born in 1567, and, like all the botanists already 
mentioned, was an apothecary. He lived in London, and was 
possessed of an excellent garden, and that he had also travelled 
appears from his works. He was “ apothecary to King James,” 
and was made “ Botanicus Regius Primarius ” by Charles I. 
He dedicated his Paradise to Queen Henrietta Maria. The 
1 The feelings that the book might inspire in children is very prettily 
shown in Mary's Meadow, by Juliana Horatia Ewing. 
