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afterwards published his second botanical work: 1 The Sanies of 
Herhes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, l)uche and Frenche wyth the 
commune names that the Herbaries and Apotecaries use,’ London, 
1548. This little work contains the solitary mention of a Hertford¬ 
shire plant, Euonymus europceus , “ In moste plentye between Ware 
and Barkway,” showing which road he took in his journey between 
London and Cambridge, though the station is a long stretch of 
something like thirteen miles. Three years later he brought out 
the first part of his ‘ Herbal,’ which was only finished in 1568, the 
year of his death, by the issue of the third part, a folio book of 
much interest. He lived a stormy life, divided between theology 
and medicine, but was a close observer of facts of natural history, 
which is shown not only by his books just mentioned, but also by 
his book on Birds, 1543, and his letter to Gesner, printed in Gesner’s 
collected works, in which he informed Gesner of the various British 
birds known to him. Three of his books have been reprinted 
in recent years. Our first observer was a capable and sound 
naturalist, and Ray’s opinion of him in his own words is “ Fir 
sol idee eruditionis et judicii ” (a man of solid learning and 
judgment). 
John Gerard, who comes next in order of time after Turner, 
offers in many respects a curious contrast. He was a man of slight 
learning, and author of two books against Turner’s 39, but his 
* Herball ’ is known everywhere and exists in three editions. 
A native of Nantwich in Cheshire, he passed the greater part of 
his life in London, and being a barber-surgeon, grew in his own 
garden the plants which he wanted in his craft. But like so many 
of the early herbalists, he was not restricted in his tastes to those 
plants only which formed, so to speak, his stock-in-trade. In his 
limited way he maintained a correspondence with foreigners, and 
thus procured seeds from abroad for his own garden and those of 
his patrons and friends. His first venture in print was his 
catalogue of garden plants, which appears to be the first garden 
list published; at this time he was superintendent of the gardens 
belonging to Lord Burleigh in the Strand, and at Theobalds in our 
county. Two years after this, Paul Hentzner visited Theobalds at 
the time when Gerard was superintendent, on the very day, 8th 
September, 1598, when the great Lord Burleigh was buried, and 
in his ‘ Itinerarium ’ he gives an account of the garden as it then 
appeared. The book by which Gerard is so well known, the 
‘Herball,’ came out in 1597; it is not an original work, but an 
adaptation of a translation from Dodoens’s ‘Pemptades,’ recast as 
to arrangement, and with copious notices of the localities of plants 
