Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . Mill-Mountain. and cookery, undoubtedly the result of a visit to theLondon garden of John Franqueville. Of this garden weare also able to give a list, but as Goodyer was there at Ger. eviac. 560. For Goodyers description of the plant, see p. 112. Theuse of Honewort, as Corn Parsley was locally called in Hampshire, steepedin beer to cure swellings of the check, was also duly recorded by him, and willbe a^ain referred to under 1625. JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE 23 the end of the year, when it wou
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . Mill-Mountain. and cookery, undoubtedly the result of a visit to theLondon garden of John Franqueville. Of this garden weare also able to give a list, but as Goodyer was there at Ger. eviac. 560. For Goodyers description of the plant, see p. 112. Theuse of Honewort, as Corn Parsley was locally called in Hampshire, steepedin beer to cure swellings of the check, was also duly recorded by him, and willbe a^ain referred to under 1625. JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE 23 the end of the year, when it would be looking its worst,the list is short (p. 326).. The Jerusalem Artichoke. We here quote his description of the circumstances ofhis success with the new wonderful! increasinge vegetable,leaving the account of the plant for a later chapter. 24 JOHN GOODYER , Where this plant groweth naturaHie I knovve not. In Anno 1617I receaved two small rootes thereof from Master Franquevill ofLondon, no bigger then hens eggs, the one I planted, the otherI gave to a frend, mine brought me a peck of rootes, wherewithI stored Hampsheire.—MS. 11, f. 117 ; Ger. emac. 754. The friend is almost certainly William Coys, for whomhe afterwards wrote out a very long list of plants(17 pages), with notes and references to the works ofLobel and Gerard, and to their occurrence in the gardensof Coys, Parkinson, and Franqueville. In this list afterthe entry relating to the Artichoke Heliotropium indicumvel virginianum, he added the note, you had latelyplanted it when I was at your house 25 Martii 1617 . Goodyers quaint description of The Vertues of theArtichoke ha
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