A letter from Dr. Ducarel, F.R.S. and F.S.A. to William Watson, M.D. F.R.S. upon the early cultivation of botany in England; and some particulars about John Tradescant, a great promoter of that science, as well as natural history, in the last century, and gardener to King Charles I.

  • Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713-1785.
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M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]
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Credit: A letter from Dr. Ducarel, F.R.S. and F.S.A. to William Watson, M.D. F.R.S. upon the early cultivation of botany in England; and some particulars about John Tradescant, a great promoter of that science, as well as natural history, in the last century, and gardener to King Charles I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fician, who flourifhed in the year 1210, entitled, 1. De Virtutibus Herbarum, MS. Bod!. Digb. 75. 2. Gilberti Liber de Viribus &Medicinis Herbarum, Arborum, & Specierum, MS. olim Monad:. Sion. 3. De Re Herbaria, Lib. I. (;/) The Bifhop likewife mentions one John Ar- dern, a famous furgeon, who lived at Newark in Nottinghamfhire from 1349 to 1370, as the author of a MS. (now extant in Sir Hans Sloane’s library), entitled, Volumen Mifcellaneorum de Re Herbaria, Phyfica, & Chirurgica. In the Afhmolean Library are the following MSS. viz. (*) (N° 7704.) entitled, A Treatife of Chirurgery, with an Herbal, &c. in Old Englifh, 4to. 1438. And another, (N° 7709.) called, An Herbary, &c. written al¬ phabetically, according to the Latin names, in 1443- And (^7537.) entitled, A Book of Plants and Ani¬ mals, delineated in their natural colours on velom, Old Englifh, A. D. 1504. Mr. Ames, in his Typographical Antiquities, p. 470, informs us, that, in the year 1516, a folio, entitled, “ The Greate Herball,” was printed in