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The well-known gardener John Rose also helped to encourage 
grape-growing by distributing vines, and wrote a work entitled 
The English Vineyard Vindicated. He offered to “ all that 
desire it sets and plants of all the best vines sufficiently tried 
in our soil and climate at reasonable prices." 1 And John 
Beale, following his example, used to offer to give plants of 
vines to " cottagers/' but they generally answered “ churlishly 
that they would not be troubled with grapes " ; but when he 
explained that in a few years their grapes would fetch a good 
price in the markets, “they were soon of a more thankful 
mind/' 
In his Diary on June 10th, 1658, Evelyn made the following 
entry : " I went to see y e medical garden at Westminster well 
stored with plants under Morgan, a very skilful botanist/' 
Hugh Morgan is twice mentioned by Johnson, in his edition 
of Gerard's Herbal, as “ The Queen's Apothecary," and “ a 
curious conserver of rare simples," and he notices a large 
specimen of the “ Lote or Nettle " tree, growing in Morgan's 
garden, near “ Coleman Street, in London," This Morgan was 
probably the same man whose garden at Westminster Evelyn 
visited, but how long he kept up this garden is uncertain. 2 
When a physic-garden in Westminster, presumably this one, 
was bought by the Apothecaries’ Company, in June, 1676, it 
was in other hands, as the Company bought the lease from 
Mrs. Gape, with the liberty of moving the plants to their 
Chelsea Garden. 3 The Physic Garden at Chelsea was founded 
in 1673, 4 and after a few years entirely superseded the one at 
Westminster. The lease of the land at Chelsea from Charles 
Cheyne (afterwards Lord Cheyne) was signed August 29th, 
1673, for a term of sixty-one years, the rent £5 per annum, and 
the following year a wall was built round the garden. The first 
gardener was Piggott, who was succeeded in 1677 by Richard 
Pratt. These gardeners were given £30 a year, and their suc¬ 
cessor, John Watts, 1679, received £50. The garden was 
1 Letter concerning Orchards and Vineyards, John Beale, 1676. 
2 “ Master Morgan the gardiner at Westminster ” and “ Dr. How, one 
of the Masters of the Physick Garden at Westminster,” are mentioned 
by W. Coles in his Art of Simpling, 1657. 
3 Faulkner’s Chelsea, vol. ii., pp. 174-176. 
1 History of the Apothecary's Garden, by Henry Field, 1820, 
