204 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
“Physick garden” division, and fifteen plants “for 
pleasure.” His list is very incomplete, to be sure; 
but even so, it furnishes an idea, in these differing pro¬ 
portions, of the change which even then was begin¬ 
ning to show itself in garden fashion. 
Thirty-six years after the great Paradisus had been 
issued, John Rea’s ambitious gardening work was pub¬ 
lished. In this there is a detailed description of the 
garden plants of his time, 1665; an d he runs the num¬ 
ber of these up to nearly a hundred, with enough varie¬ 
ties under each kind to multiply this several times. 
The century and a half following the publication of 
this painstaking effort of Rea’s brought many more 
flowers into the gardens, on both sides of the ocean, 
than he names; yet Richard Bradley, in 1726, adds 
only a dozen things to it, and one of these—the heart’s- 
ease—can only have been omitted by Rea through an 
oversight, for it was most certainly in every well 
stocked garden in his day. On the other hand, many 
of Rea’s plants are omitted by Bradley, these prob¬ 
ably the least popular, or the ones whose popularity 
was diminishing under the inrush of novelties. 
Checking the elder of these two works—Rea’s and 
Bradley’s—by the younger—there is sixty-one years 
between them—I find between fifty-five and sixty 
kinds common to both, allowing a little latitude where 
some doubt seems to linger around the question of 
